Teacher turned writer Ian Hay scored a major bestseller with this moving account of his experiences on the front lines of World War I. Alternating between laugh-out-loud hilarity and heart-rending scenes of tragedy, this richly detailed memoir conveys the complexity of battle.
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- THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND
- 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 TWO - LIVE 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