Chapter II: Preface: xv

I. FIRST IMPRESSIONS 1

II. CUINCHY AND GIVENCHY 19

III. WORKING-PARTIES 42

IV. REST 64

V. ON THE MARCH 87

VI. THE BOIS FRANÇAIS TRENCHES 96

VII. MORE FIRST IMPRESSIONS 117

VIII. SNIPING 133

IX. ON PATROL 154

X. “WHOM THE GODS LOVE” 163

XI. “WHOM THE GODS LOVE”--(_continued_). 181

XII. OFFICERS’ SERVANTS 195

XIII. MINES 212

XIV. BILLETS 229

XV. “A CERTAIN MAN DREW A BOW AT A VENTURE” 256

XVI. WOUNDED 268

XVII. CONCLUSION 294

MAPS

FACING PAGE

I. BÉTHUNE AND LA BASSÉE, NEIGHBOURHOOD OF 9

II. FRICOURT AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 97

III. THE TRENCHES NEAR FRICOURT 103

ILLUSTRATION

PORTRAIT OF AUTHOR Frontispiece