- 286 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The First Hundred Thousand
About this book
This book contains a fictionalised account of the day-to-day experiences of soldiers in Kitchener's Army, the voluntary section of the British Army formed following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Although the characters are a work of fiction, the incidents described all actually occurred. The story was originally contributed in the form of an anonymous narrative to "Blackwood's Magazine". Contents include: "The Daily Grind", "Growing Pains", "The Conversion of Private M'Slattery", "Crime", "The Laws of the Medes and Persians", "Shooting Straight", "Billets", "Mid-Channel", "Deeds of Darkness", "Olympus", "... And Some Fell by the Wayside", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.
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Table of contents
- PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
- “K(1)”
- NOTE
- BOOK ONE BLANK CARTRIDGES
- I. AB OVO
- II. THE DAILY GRIND
- III. GROWING PAINS
- IV. THE CONVERSION OF PRIVATE M’SLATTERY
- V. “CRIME”
- VI. THE LAWS OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS
- VII. SHOOTING STRAIGHT
- VIII. BILLETS
- IX. MID-CHANNEL
- X. DEEDS OF DARKNESS
- XI. OLYMPUS
- XII. AND SOME FELL BY THE WAYSIDE
- XIII. CONCERT PITCH
- BOOK TWOLIVE ROUNDS
- XIV. THE BACK OF THE FRONT
- XV. IN THE TRENCHES—AN OFF-DAY
- XVI. “DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSS-ROADS TO-NIGHT”
- XVII. THE NEW WARFARE
- XVIII. THE FRONT OF THE FRONT
- XIX. THE TRIVIAL ROUND
- XX. THE GATHERING OF THE EAGLES
- XXI. THE BATTLE OF THE SLAG-HEAPS
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