Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Author's acknowledgements
• Preface
• Foreword: The Western Front
• PART ONE: MOVEMENT
• Introduction to Part One
• Advance to Mons
• From Mons to the Aisne
• Casualty of the Great Retreat
• First Ypres and Entrenchment
• Killed in Action at First Ypres
• A Nurse at First Ypres
• PART TWO:DEADLOCK
• Introduction to Part Two
• First Winter, and the Christmas Truce
• The Trenches
• The Guns
• 'Rest' - and Rest
• First Battles
• The Battle of Loos
• Wounds, 'Blighty ones', Fatalities
• 'If your number is on it'... Religion and Fatalism
• Executions at Dawn: from the Diary of an Assistant Provost-Marshal
• 'Smile, boys, smile': Soldiers' Humour
• A French Artist with the BEF
• The 'No Man's Land' War: Patrols and Raids
• The Somme: Hard Knocks, Hard Lessons
• 'All in a Day's work': The Death of Captain Geoffrey Donaldson
• The Australians at Pozieres
• Unhappy Warriors
• 'Stellenbosched': Nightmare of a Brigadier- General
• First Tanks
• 'Over the top'
• The 'Bomb-proof' Canadian
• Winter, and the German Withdrawal
• Diary of a Battalion Runner
• Entertainments, for the troops, various
• Arras: A Senior Staff Officers View
• Liaison Officer with the Portugese
• Messines, June 1917
• The Treatment of Prisoners
• The First Day of Third Ypres
• 'Only Murder' : A Stretcher-Bearer during the Third Ypres
• The War in the Air
• The Battle of the Menin Road
• 'Great Days These': the View from Passchendaele
• Cambrai: Hopes Raised, Hopes Deferred
• PART THREE: BREAK-OUT
• Introduction to Part Three
• The 'Kaiser's Battle': First Impact
• The March Retreat
• 'Backs to the Wall'
• A World of Rare Women
• Americans
• The Last Hundred Days: I
• The Last Hundred Days: II
• Endings
• The Changing Face of Ypres
• An Afterword on Attitudes
• Index of Contributors
• General Index