Table of Contents
Regiments 6
Introduction 8
Chapter 1 Most Suitable for a Surprise Operation 13
Chapter 2 We Go Straight In and Sit on the Germans 21
Chapter 3 Straining like Dogs of War on the Leash 30
Chapter 4 This was No Time for Half Measures 42
Chapter 5 Black Monsters Moaning and Panting 55
Chapter 6 All the Usual War Problems Had Been Thought Out 64
Chapter 7 The Men Could See the Spires of Cambrai 76
Chapter 8 This Wipes Out Bullecourt, Sir! 88
Chapter 9 The Situation in Bourlon was Obscure 100
Chapter 10 A Dirty and Noisy Business was Bourlon 110
Chapter 11 Progress is Unknown, as Nobody Returned 118
Chapter 12 The Struggle was Hand-to-Hand, Obstinate and Desperate 129
Chapter 13 The Novel Experience of Killing Germans in Lumps 144
Chapter 14 Would Not Give Up Such a Rare Chance to Kill Huns 153
Chapter 15 The Ground was Frozen Solid for about a Foot or More 163
Conclusions 173
Index 180