Letters from France

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Author

Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow), 1879-1968

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E-text prepared by Elaine Walker, Paul Ereaut, 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, English

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Text

eBook-No.

18390

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Release Date

May 14, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Letters from France — BY
2. 2.C. E. W. BEAN — War Correspondent for the Commonwealth of Australia — WITH A MAP AND EIGHT PLATES — CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD — London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne — 1917 — To those other Australians who fell in the Sharpest Action their Force has known, on July 19, 1916, before Fromelles, these Memories of a Greater, but not a Braver, Battle are herewith Dedicated
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.LIST OF PLATES
6. 6.LETTERS FROM FRANCE
7. 7.CHAPTER I — A PADRE WHO SAID THE RIGHT THING
8. 8.CHAPTER II — TO THE FRONT
9. 9.CHAPTER III — THE FIRST IMPRESSION—A COUNTRY WITH EYES
10. 10.CHAPTER IV — THE ROAD TO LILLE
11. 11.CHAPTER V — THE DIFFERENCES
12. 12.CHAPTER VI — THE GERMANS
13. 13.CHAPTER VII — THE PLANES
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII — THE COMING STRUGGLE: OUR TASK
15. 15.CHAPTER IX — IN A FOREST OF FRANCE
16. 16.CHAPTER X — IDENTIFIED
17. 17.CHAPTER XI — THE GREAT BATTLE BEGINS — FOOTNOTE:
18. 18.CHAPTER XII — THE BRITISH—FRICOURT AND LA BOISELLE — FOOTNOTE:
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII — THE DUG-OUTS OF FRICOURT
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV — THE RAID
21. 21.CHAPTER XV — POZIÈRES
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI — AN ABYSM OF DESOLATION
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII — POZIÈRES RIDGE
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII — THE GREEN COUNTRY
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX — TROMMELFEUER
26. 26.CHAPTER XX — THE NEW FIGHTING
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI — ANGELS' WORK
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII — OUR NEIGHBOUR
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII — MOUQUET FARM
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV — HOW THE AUSTRALIANS WERE RELIEVED
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV — ON LEAVE TO A NEW ENGLAND
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI — THE NEW ENTRY
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII — A HARD TIME
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII — THE WINTER OF 1916
35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX — AS IN THE WORLD'S DAWN
36. 36.CHAPTER XXX — THE GRASS BANK
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI — IN THE MUD OF LE BARQUE
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII — THE NEW DRAFT — FOOTNOTE:
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIII — WHY HE IS NOT "THE ANZAC" — Printed by Cassell & Company, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, London, E.C.4

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