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Letters from France

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المؤلف:

Bean C E W (Charles Edwin Woodrow)

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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22. Our Neighbour 151 23. Mouquet Farm 157 24. How the Australians were Relieved 168 25. On Leave to a New England 175 26. The New Entry 181 27. A Hard Time 189 28. The Winter of 1916 197 29. As in the World's Dawn 203 30. The Grass Bank 209 31. In the Mud of Le Barque 218 32. The New Draft 223 33. Why He is not "The Anzac" 229

LIST OF PLATES

Australians Watching the Bombardment of Pozières	Frontispiece
	FACING PAGE
Sketch Map	1
"Talking with the Kiddies in the Street"	12
"An Occasional Broken Tree-Trunk"	16
No Man's Land	16
Along the Road to Lille	26
The Trenches here have to be Built Above the Ground in Breastwork	30
A Main Street of Pozières	112
The Church Pozières	112
The Windmill of Pozières	140
The Barely Recognisable Remains of a Trench	140
The Tumbled Heap of Bricks and Timber which the World Knows as Mouquet Farm	160
"Past the Mud-Heaps Scraped by the Road Gangs"	160

Rough sketch showing some of the German defences of Pozières and the direction of the Australian attacks between July 22 and September 4 1916. (From Pozières to Moquet Farm is just over a mile.)

LETTERS FROM FRANCE

CHAPTER I

A PADRE WHO SAID THE RIGHT THING

France, April 8th, 1916.

The sun glared from a Mediterranean sky and from the surface of the Mediterranean sea. The liner heaved easily to a slow swell. In the waist of the ship a densely packed crowd of sunburnt faces upturned