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Front, by Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
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Title: Action Front
Author: Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
Release Date: February 28, 2004 [EBook 11349]
Language: English
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ACTION FRONT
BY
BOYD CABLE
1916
TO
MR. J. A. SPENDER
to whose recognition and appreciation of my work, and to whose instant and eager hospitality in the "Westminster Gazette" so much of these war writings is due, this book is very gratefully dedicated by
THE AUTHOR
FOREWORD
I make no apology for having followed in this book the same plan as in my other one, "Between the Lines," of taking extracts from the official despatches as "texts" and endeavoring to show something of what these brief messages cover, because so many of my own friends, and so many more unknown friends amongst the reviewers, expressed themselves so pleased with the plan that I feel its repetition is justified.
There were some who complained that my last book was in parts too grim and too terrible, and no doubt the same complaint may lie against this one. To that I can only reply that I have found it impossible to write with