Chapter II: Part V

THE BATTLES OF FLANDERS
AND THE CANADIANS AT LENS

I. BREAKING THE SALIENT 195
II. FROM PILKEM RIDGE TO HOLLEBEKE 201
III. THE BEGINNING OF THE RAINS 206
IV. PILL-BOXES AND MACHINE-GUNS 211
V. THE SONG OF THE COCKCHAFERS 221
VI. WOODS OF ILL-FAME 226
VII. THE BATTLE OF LANGEMARCK 230
VIII. CAPTURE OF HILL SEVENTY 234
IX. LONDONERS IN GLENCORSE WOOD 242
X. SOMERSETS AT LANGEMARCK 246
XI. THE IRISH IN THE SWAMPS 251
XII. THE WAY THROUGH GLENCORSE WOOD 255
XIII. THE SLAUGHTER-HOUSE OF LENS 261
XIV. THE AGONY OF ARMENTIERES 269
XV. THE BATTLE OF MENIN ROAD 274
XVI. THE WAY TO PASSCHENDAELE 294
XVII. THE BATTLE OF POLYGON WOOD 298
XVIII. ABRAHAM HEIGHTS AND BEYOND 308
XIX. SCENES OF BATTLE 321
XX. THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND 329
XXI. THE ASSAULTS ON PASSCHENDAELE 339
XXII. ROUND POELCAPPELLE 343
XXIII. THE CANADIANS COME NORTH 356
XXIV. LONDON MEN AND ARTISTS 372
XXV. THE CAPTURE OF PASSCHENDAELE 376

FROM BAPAUME TO PASSCHENDAELE