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CONTENTS

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Introduction[1]
PART I
RETREAT FROM THE SOMME
I.A New Year of War[23]
II.An Attack near Le Transloy[28]
III.The Abandonment of Grandcourt[31]
IV.The Gordons in the Butte de Warlencourt[33]
V.The Battle of Boom Ravine[36]
VI.The Enemy Withdraws[38]
VII.Our Entry into Gommecourt[39]
VIII.Why the Enemy Withdrew[44]
IX.The Australians enter Bapaume[49]
X.The Rescue of Péronne[55]
PART II
ON THE TRAIL OF THE ENEMY
I.The Making of No Man's Land[60]
II.The Letter of the Law[63]
III.The Abandoned Country[66]
IV.The Curé of Voyennes[70]
V.The Château of Liancourt[73]
VI.The Old Women of Tincourt[77]
VII.The Agony of War[79]
VIII.Cavalry in Action[83]
PART III
THE BATTLE OF ARRAS
I.Arras and the Vimy Ridge[87]
II.Londoners through the German Lines[96]
III.The Struggle Round Monchy[99]
IV.The Other Side of Vimy[108]
V.The Way To Lens[113]
VI.The Slaughter at Lagnicourt[124]
VII.The Terrors of the Scarpe[125]
VIII.The Background of Battle[133]
IX.How the Scots Took Guémappe[137]
X.The Oppy Line[139]
XI.The Battle of May 3[142]
XII.Fields of Gold[148]
PART IV
THE BATTLE OF MESSINES
I.Wytschaete and Messines[152]
II.The Spirit of Victory[159]
III.After the Earthquake[164]
IV.The Effect of the Blow[172]
V.Looking Backward[176]
VI.The Australians at Messines[180]
VII.A Battle in a Thunder-storm[183]
VIII.The Tragedy at Lombartzyde[186]
IX.The Struggle for Hell Wood[190]
PART V
THE BATTLES OF FLANDERS
AND THE CANADIANS AT LENS
I.Breaking the Salient[195]
II.From Pilkem Ridge To Hollebeke[201]
III.The Beginning of the Rains[206]
IV.Pill-boxes and Machine-guns[211]
V.The Song of the Cockchafers[221]
VI.Woods of Ill-fame[226]
VII.The Battle of Langemarck[230]
VIII.Capture of Hill Seventy[234]
IX.Londoners in Glencorse Wood[242]
X.Somersets at Langemarck[246]
XI.The Irish in the Swamps[251]
XII.The Way Through Glencorse Wood[255]
XIII.The Slaughter-house of Lens[261]
XIV.The Agony of Armentières[269]
XV.The Battle of Menin Road[274]
XVI.The Way To Passchendaele[294]
XVII.The Battle of Polygon Wood[298]
XVIII.Abraham Heights and Beyond[308]
XIX.Scenes of Battle[321]
XX.The Slough of Despond[329]
XXI.The Assaults on Passchendaele[339]
XXII.Round Poelcappelle[343]
XXIII.The Canadians come North[356]
XXIV.London Men and Artists[372]
XXV.The Capture of Passchendaele[376]

FROM BAPAUME TO PASSCHENDAELE

INTRODUCTION