""Contemptible""
Autor: Casualty, [pseud.]
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ISBN: 9781443212106
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Excerpt: SOLDIERS' TALES OF THE GREAT WAR Each volume cr. 8vo, cloth. WITH MY REGIMENT. By ""Platoon Commander."" DIXMUDE. The Epic of the French Marines. Oct.-Nov. 1914. By, Charles le Goffic. Illustrated IN THE FIELD (1914-15). The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry. UNCENSORED LETTERS FROM THE DARDANELLES. Notes of a French Army Doctor. Illustrated PRISONER OF WAR. By Andr Warnod. Illustrated ""CONTEMPTIBLE."" By ""Casualty."" ON THE ANZAC TRAIL. By ""Anzac."" Philadelphia J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY London: WILLIAM, HEINEMANN ""CONTEMPTIBLE"" BY ""CASUALTY"" Philadelphia: J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN MCMXVI Printed in Great Britain. CONTENTS LEAVING ENGLAND CALM BEFORE THE STORM THE ADVANCE TO MONS MONS THE BEGINNING OF THE RETREAT DARKNESS VENROLLES ST. QUENTIN AND LA FRE SIR JOHN FRENCH A PAUSE, AND MORE MARCHING A REAR-GUARD ACTION VILLIERS-COTTERETS HEAT AND DUST THE OCCUPATION OF VILLIERS THE LAST LAP THE TURN OF THE TIDE THE ADVANCE BEGINS THE CROSSING OF THE MARNE AN ADVANCED-GUARD ACTION DEFENCE THE DEFENCE OF THE BRANDY STRATEGY AS YOU LIKE IT THE LAST ADVANCE SATURDAY NIGHT THE CROSSING OF THE AISNE THE CELLARS OF POUSSEY THE FIRST TRENCHES IN RESERVE AT SOUVIR TO STRAIGHTEN THE LINE THE JAWS OF DEATH THE FIELD HOSPITAL OPERATION ST. NAZAIRE SOMEWHERE IN MAYFAIR CHAPTER I LEAVING ENGLAND No cheers, no handkerchiefs, no bands. Nothing that even suggested the time-honoured scene of soldiers leaving home to fight the Empire's battles. Parade was at midnight. Except for the lighted windows of the barracks, and the rush of hurrying feet, all was dark and quiet. It was more like ordinary night operations than the dramatic departure of a Unit of the First British Expeditionary Force to France. As the Battalion swung into the road, the Subaltern could not help thinking that this was indeed a queer send-off. A few sergeants' wives, standing at the corner of the Parade ground, were saying good-bye to their friends as they passed. ""Good-bye,...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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