From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917

CONTENTS

CHAP		Page
	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	Clyx.com