A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire

About this eBook

Author

Harvey, Harold

Credits

Produced by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries ( www.archive.org/details/toronto), Suzanne Lybarger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)

Subject

World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works

Category

Text

eBook-No.

16056

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16056

Release Date

June 14, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A SOLDIER'S SKETCHES UNDER FIRE
2. 2.By HAROLD HARVEY
3. 3.FORENOTE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.SKETCHES — PART I.
6. 6.ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT. — A SOLDIER'S SKETCHES UNDER FIRE. — INTRODUCTORY.
7. 7.ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT.
8. 8.CHAPTER I. — From Southampton to Malta . — At Malta . — Malta and the Pirates . — Sergeants' Mess . — Fortifications . — The Maltese .
9. 9.CHAPTER II. — FROM MALTA TO MARSEILLES. — The Story of "The Marseillaise."
10. 10.CHAPTER III. — FROM MARSEILLES TO ARMENTIÈRES. — Tub, Tea and a Halt . — "Doomsday Book." — The Last Stage . — Lady Angela Forbes's Soldiers' Home at Etaples . — On the Road to the Trenches . — PART II.
11. 11.AT THE FRONT.
12. 12.CHAPTER IV. — SOME SAMPLE EXCITEMENTS OF LIFE IN THE TRENCHES. — At Armentières . — Fetching Water . — Capture of a German Trench . — A Night Relief . — Ration Parties . — Gathering In our Firewood . — "Stand To."
13. 13.CHAPTER V. — THE LIGHTER SIDE OF TRENCH LIFE. — Sing-Songs. — "Dirty Dick's" . — "Seventy-Five Hotel." — "Chicken Farm." — A French Comedian .
14. 14.CHAPTER VI. — THE "MAKE" OF A BRITISH TRENCH. — A Traverse . — The Birth-Place of a Song . — Trench Periscope .
15. 15.CHAPTER VII. — THE RUSE OF A GERMAN SNIPER. — The Sniper who Lived in a Tree .
16. 16.CHAPTER VIII. — THREE DEATH TRAPS. — Suicide Bridge . — Suicide Signal Box . — A Mile-and-a-Half of Hell . — The Hole in the Wall .
17. 17.CHAPTER IX. — GERMAN BEASTS IN A FRENCH CONVENT.
18. 18.CHAPTER X. — ANOTHER SCENE OF BOCHE BRUTALITY.
19. 19.CHAPTER XI. — THE TRICK THAT DIDN'T TRICK US. — "Jam-tin Artillery Party." — Dilapidated Quarters .
20. 20.CHAPTER XII. — THE BARRED ROAD TO CALAIS. — "Golgotha." . — In Hospital .
21. 21.With Cavalry in 1915. — The British Trooper in the Trench Line. Through the Second Battle of Ypres.

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