| PAGE |
| CHAPTER I |
| Mons and the Great Retreat | 1 |
| Private J. Parkinson, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders. |
| CHAPTER II |
| German Atrocities | 17 |
| Driver G. Blow, Royal Field Artillery. |
| CHAPTER III |
| “Greenjackets” in the Firing Line | 29 |
| Rifleman R. Brice, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. |
| CHAPTER IV |
| The Struggle on the Aisne | 41 |
| Private Herbert Page, Coldstream Guards. |
| CHAPTER V |
| “The Most Critical Day of All” | 54 |
| Corporal F. W. Holmes, V.C., M.M., 2nd Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. |
| CHAPTER VI |
| British Fighters in French Forts | 70 |
| Private J. Boyers, Durham Light Infantry. |
| CHAPTER VII |
| German Treachery and Hatred | 82 |
| Corporal W. Bratby, Middlesex Regiment. |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| Life in the Trenches | 94 |
| Private G. Townsend, 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment. |
| CHAPTER IX |
| Sapping and Mining: the “Lucky Company” | 108 |
| Sapper William Bell, Royal Engineers. |
| CHAPTER X |
| L Battery’s Heroic Stand | 118 |
| Gunner H. Darbyshire, Royal Horse Artillery. |
| CHAPTER XI |
| Sixteen Weeks of Fighting | 135 |
| Private B. Montgomery, Royal West Kent Regiment. |
| CHAPTER XII |
| A Daisy-Chain of Bandoliers | 146 |
| Private W. H. Cooperwaite, Durham Light Infantry. |
| CHAPTER XIII |
| Despatch-Riding | 158 |
| Corporal Hedley G. Browne, Royal Engineers. |
| CHAPTER XIV |
| The Three Torpedoed Cruisers | 169 |
| Able-Seaman C. C. Nurse. |
| CHAPTER XV |
| The Runaway Raiders | 182 |
| Sapper W. Hall, Royal Engineers. |
| CHAPTER XVI |
| Campaigning with the Highlanders | 191 |
| Private A. Veness, 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders. |
| CHAPTER XVII |
| Transport-Driving | 203 |
| Private James Roache, Army Service Corps
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