A Yankee in the Trenches
by Robert Derby Holmes
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holmes, Robert Derby
- Credits
- Produced by Janet Kegg and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
- Subject
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 13279
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13279
- Release Date
- August 25, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A YANKEE — IN THE TRENCHES
- 2.R. DERBY HOLMES — Dedication
- 3.FOREWORD — CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.A YANKEE IN THE TRENCHES
- 5.CHAPTER I — JOINING THE BRITISH ARMY
- 6.CHAPTER II — GOING IN
- 7.CHAPTER III — A TRENCH RAID
- 8.CHAPTER IV — A FEW DAYS' REST IN BILLETS
- 9.CHAPTER V — FEEDING THE TOMMIES
- 10.CHAPTER VI — HIKING TO VIMY RIDGE
- 11.CHAPTER VII — FASCINATION OF PATROL WORK
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — ON THE GO
- 13.CHAPTER IX — FIRST SIGHT OF THE TANKS
- 14.CHAPTER X — FOLLOWING THE TANKS INTO BATTLE
- 15.CHAPTER XI — PRISONERS
- 16.CHAPTER XII — I BECOME A BOMBER
- 17.CHAPTER XIII — BACK ON THE SOMME AGAIN
- 18.CHAPTER XIV — THE LAST TIME OVER THE TOP
- 19.CHAPTER XV — BITS OF BLIGHTY
- 20.CHAPTER XVI — SUGGESTIONS FOR "SAMMY" — GLOSSARY OF ARMY SLANG
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