On the Front Line

In 1930, the editor of "Everyman" magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'. It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier and offers heart-stopping renditions of the very first gas attack; aerial dogfights above the trenches; the moment of going over the top. It is told chronologically, from the first scrambles of 1914, the drudgery of the war of attrition once the trenches had been dug, to the final joy of Armistice.

ISBN	1849010676	Pages	512
ISBN13	9781849010672 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	330
Publisher	Constable and Robinson	Published in	London
Imprint	Constable	Height (mm)	199
Format	Paperback	Width (mm)	131
Publication date	27 Aug 2009	Spine width (mm)	29
DEWEY	940.48	Academic level	General
DEWEY edition	DC22

		Foreword		1
		Introduction		9
		The Old Contemptibles, 1914
		The Retreat from Mons, August 23rd-September 5th, 1914 by Bernard John Denore		12
		An Old Contemptible at Le Cateau by R. G. Hill		21
		The First Battle of Ypres, October 1914 by J. F. Bell		28
		In France and Flanders, 1915-1918
		A Territorial in the Salient by F. L. Watson		33
		The First Gas Attack by Anthony R. Hossack		41
		The Battle of Loos by W. Walker		47
		A Highland Battalion at Loos by Thos. McCall		54
		At a Sap-Head by David Phillips		60
		Trenches at Vimy Ridge by Harold Saunders		68
		In a Kite Balloon by W. Sylvanus Lewis		76
		A Night Counter-Attack by F. W. Watts		80
		A Gunner's Adventure by N. H. Bradbury		87
		The Carnoy Cows by T. S. Williams		92
		Ordinary War on the Somme by Fred Ball		98
		Delville Wood by S. J. Worsley		105
		In a Billet by Harry Drake		111
		17-21 by George F. Wear		114
		A Wireless Operator by B. Neyland		123
		At Messines Ridge in 1917 by E. N. Gladden		130
		A July Day at St. Julien by Alfred Willcox		139
		A Labour Company at Ypres by J. Cumming Morgan		147
		Two Nights by P. Hoole Jackson		153
		On the Belgian Coast by George Brame		161
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