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Chapter 5 THE BATTLE OF BOOM RAVINE

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and here on February 17 there was fierce fighting by the Royal Fusi

ess, and shell-fire, and death, it seems to me to hold most of what this

gain in time. It was all black and beastly. A great fire of high explosives burst over our assembly lines. The darkness was lit up by the red flashes of these bursting shells. Men fell, wounded and dead. The Royal Fusiliers were specially tried, and their brigadier wondered whether they would have the spirit to get up and attack when the hour arrived. But when the moment came the survivors rose and went forward, and fought through to the last goal. They were the first to get to Grandcou

hed down all the trees, and their tall trunks lay at the bottom of the gulley, and their branches were flung about. The banks had been opened out by shell-craters, and several of the German dug-outs built into the sides of them were upheaved or choked. Dead bodies or human fragments lay among the branches and broken woodwork. A shell of ours had entered one dug-out and blown six dead men out of its doorway. They sprawled

ts. Their bodies lie there now, curled up. Some of them pretended to be dead when our men came near. One of them lay still, with his face in the moist earth. "See that that man is properly dead," said an officer, and a soldier with him pricked the man. He sprang up with a scream, and ran hard away-to our lines. Six prisoners came trudg

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Contents

Chapter 1 A NEW YEAR OF WAR Chapter 2 AN ATTACK NEAR LE TRANSLOY Chapter 3 THE ABANDONMENT OF GRANDCOURT Chapter 4 THE GORDONS IN THE BUTTE DE WARLENCOURT Chapter 5 THE BATTLE OF BOOM RAVINE Chapter 6 THE ENEMY WITHDRAWS Chapter 7 OUR ENTRY INTO GOMMECOURT Chapter 8 WHY THE ENEMY WITHDREW Chapter 9 THE AUSTRALIANS ENTER BAPAUME Chapter 10 THE MAKING OF NO MAN'S LAND Chapter 11 THE LETTER OF THE LAW
Chapter 12 THE ABANDONED COUNTRY
Chapter 13 THE CURé OF VOYENNES
Chapter 14 THE CHTEAU OF LIANCOURT
Chapter 15 THE OLD WOMEN OF TINCOURT
Chapter 16 THE AGONY OF WAR
Chapter 17 ARRAS AND THE VIMY RIDGE
Chapter 18 LONDONERS THROUGH THE GERMAN LINES
Chapter 19 THE STRUGGLE ROUND MONCHY
Chapter 20 THE OTHER SIDE OF VIMY
Chapter 21 THE WAY TO LENS
Chapter 22 THE SLAUGHTER AT LAGNICOURT
Chapter 23 THE TERRORS OF THE SCARPE
Chapter 24 THE BACKGROUND OF BATTLE
Chapter 25 HOW THE SCOTS TOOK GUéMAPPE
Chapter 26 THE OPPY LINE
Chapter 27 THE BATTLE OF MAY 3
Chapter 28 WYTSCHAETE AND MESSINES
Chapter 29 THE SPIRIT OF VICTORY
Chapter 30 AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
Chapter 31 THE EFFECT OF THE BLOW
Chapter 32 LOOKING BACKWARD
Chapter 33 THE AUSTRALIANS AT MESSINES
Chapter 34 A BATTLE IN A THUNDER-STORM
Chapter 35 THE TRAGEDY AT LOMBARTZYDE
Chapter 36 BREAKING THE SALIENT
Chapter 37 FROM PILKEM RIDGE TO HOLLEBEKE
Chapter 38 THE BEGINNING OF THE RAINS
Chapter 39 PILL-BOXES AND MACHINE-GUNS
Chapter 40 THE SONG OF THE COCKCHAFERS
Chapter 41 WOODS OF ILL-FAME
Chapter 42 THE BATTLE OF LANGEMARCK
Chapter 43 CAPTURE OF HILL SEVENTY
Chapter 44 LONDONERS IN GLENCORSE WOOD
Chapter 45 SOMERSETS AT LANGEMARCK
Chapter 46 THE IRISH IN THE SWAMPS
Chapter 47 THE WAY THROUGH GLENCORSE WOOD
Chapter 48 THE SLAUGHTER-HOUSE OF LENS
Chapter 49 THE AGONY OF ARMENTIèRES
Chapter 50 THE BATTLE OF MENIN ROAD
Chapter 51 THE WAY TO PASSCHENDAELE
Chapter 52 THE BATTLE OF POLYGON WOOD
Chapter 53 ABRAHAM HEIGHTS AND BEYOND
Chapter 54 SCENES OF BATTLE
Chapter 55 THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND
Chapter 56 THE ASSAULTS ON PASSCHENDAELE
Chapter 57 ROUND POELCAPPELLE
Chapter 58 THE CANADIANS COME NORTH
Chapter 59 LONDON MEN AND ARTISTS
Chapter 60 THE CAPTURE OF PASSCHENDAELE
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