The war the infantry knew, 1914-1919 : a chronicle of service in France and Belgium with the Second Battalion, His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, the Royal Welch Fusiliers : founded on personal records recollections and reflections, assembled, edited and pa

__The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919__ is a remarkably coherent narrative, in diary form, of an infantry battalion's experience on the Western Front. A moving, truthful historical record, it deserves to be added to the select list of outstanding accounts of the First World War. \*\* Content: TABLE OF CONTENTS GLOSSARY SKETCHES FROM MAPS CONTRIBUTORS CHAPTER I-July-August 1914 "The suddenness of a thunderbolt"-Mobilizing-Crossing the Channel-Rouen-Amiens CHAPTER II-August-September 1914 "To the War in Earnest"-"Mons," A Rumour: Retreat-"Le Cateau"-Sleep-walking-St. Quentin-Wayside Comedies-"Still on, on"-A Rose Garden CHAPTER III-September-October 1914 Recoil: "Marne"-La Ferté-sous-Jouarre: "Aisne"-Septmonts CHAPTER IV-October-November 1914 The Race for the Sea-To St. Omer by Night-Outpost Affairs-A Hair-cut in Ypres-A Forced March-"La Bassée": Fromelles La Cordonnerie, "We are not moving back"CHAPTER V-November 1914-August 1915 Stalemate: Houplines, flood-Christmas 1914-Bois Grenier, mud-Armentières estaminets, and other Amusements-Patrolling-Echoes of Neuve Chapelle-A Chinese Raid-Echoes of Festubert-Ypres, "Even for an egg-shell! "-Summer on a quiet Front-Laventie-Intelligence CHAPTER VI-August-October 1915 Béthune-The Front in 1915-"Loos"-Discords CHAPTER VII-October 1915-April 1916 Béthune: Winter-Navvying-New Army-Christmas 1915-Bickering-"R. W.F. Crater"-A Sing-Song, by "Punch," and other Play CHAPTER VIII-April-July 1916 Béthune: Spring and Summer-Catabrin Raid-Cuinchy Raid-A Battalion Canteen-The Duck's Bill goes up-Red Dragon Crater-The Warren RaidCHAPTER IX-July-August 1916 Somme-Ancre-Facing Bazentin Ridge-High Wood-Amiens-Old Army into New-Moles CHAPTER X-August-November 1916 Somme-Interval-Agincourt billets-a torpid front-a pleasant vale: A wet autumn-Quick moving by omnibus-Just moving on foot: With the French at Morval-"Not today": Lesbœufs-"toot sweet" : Two patrols CHAPTER XI-November 1916-March 1917 Somme-Winter, a hard one-A chilly rest-Live and let live: Abbeville: The downs above Clery-The thermometer below zero-Les Bouffes!-"Thank God-and the Brigadier:"-Implications and InteractionsCHAPTER XII-March-April 1917 A subaltern's service in camp and in action CHAPTER XIII-April-July 1917 Arras-"Scarpe"-The Hindenburg Line-St. George's Day on Hénin Hill-Croisilles-Whitsunday in Plum Lane-Footnotes CHAPTER XIV-July-August 1917 A quiet Summer-Rest and Sport: Echoes of Crécy-of de Vere-of the Ironsides: Nieuport: St. Omer: Slow March on the guns at Ypres CHAPTER XV-September 1917-January 1918The Ypres Salient: Behind "Menin Ridge"-"Polygon Wood"-Messines-Hewers of Wood-Passchendaele, unrestful-Christmas in "Pop."-Chinese Justice-Passchendaele, at ease-Drawers of Water-Dissension in high places CHAPTER XVI-January-April 1918 All Welsh-Bois Grenier and digging again: Flight from home: London: March 21st, 1918, "Michael Day" CHAPTER XVII-April-August 1918 The Ancre Valley again-Albert-Hamel: The Germans in Bois Grenier: A spent blow: Wind and Gas-An Opera-bouffe raid-Tom Fool's errands: Hamel raid: Ancre crossings Memoirs of British medical officer J.C. Dunn during World War I:?The first duty of a battalion medical officer in War is to discourage the evasion of duty ... not seldom against one's better feelings, sometimes to the temporary hurt of the individual, but justice to all other men as well as discipline demands it.??Sometimes, through word of mouth and shared enthusiasm, a secret book becomes famous. The War the Infantry Knew is one of them. Published privately in a limited edition of five hundred copies in 1938, it gained a reputation as an outstanding account of an infantry battalion's experience on the Western Front.????????Daily Telegraph?I have been waiting for a long time for someone to republish this classic. It is one of the most interesting and revealing books of its type and is a genuinely truthful and fascinating picture of the war as it was for the infantry????????John Keegan 'A remarkably coherent narrative of the battalion's experiences in diary form ... a moving historical record which deserves to be added to the select list of outstanding accounts of the First World War????????Times Literary Supplement?A magnificent tour de force, the length of three ordinary books.????????London Review of Books Memoirs of British medical officer J. C. Dunn during World War I: "The first duty of a battalion medical officer in War is to discourage the evasion of duty...not seldom against one's better feelings, sometimes to the temporary hurt of the individual, but justice to all other men as well as discipline demands it." "Sometimes, through word of mouth and shared enthusiasm, a secret book becomes famous. The War the Infantry Knew is one of them. Published privately in a limited edition of five hundred copies in 1938, it gained a reputation as an outstanding account of an infantry battalion's experience on the Western Front."—Daily Telegraph "I have been waiting for a long time for someone to republish this classic. It is one of the most interesting and revealing books of its type and is a genuinely truthful and fascinating picture of the war as it was for the infantry"—John Keegan 'A remarkably coherent narrative of the battalion's experiences in diary form...a moving historical record which deserves to be added to the select list of outstanding accounts of the First World War"—Times Literary Supplement "A magnificent tour de force, the length of three ordinary books."—London Review of Books