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Between the Lines, by Boyd Cable
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Title: Between the Lines
Author: Boyd Cable
Release Date: April 15, 2008 [EBook #25076]
Language: English
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BETWEEN THE LINES
BY
BOYD CABLE
TORONTO
McCLELLAND, GOODCHILD, & STEWART, LTD.
1916
TO
THE EDITOR OF THE CORNHILL
REGINALD JOHN SMITH
for whose helpful criticism and advice, kindly consideration and unfailing courtesy to an unknown writer, a sufficiency of grateful appreciation can never be expressed by
THE AUTHOR
FOREWORD
This book, all of which has been written at the Front within sound of the German guns and for the most part within shell and rifle range, is an attempt to tell something of the manner of struggle that has gone on for months between the lines along the Western Front, and more especially of what lies behind and goes to the making of those curt and vague terms in the war communiqués. I think that our people at Home will be glad to know more, and ought to know more, of what these bald phrases may actually signify, when, in the other sense, we read 'between the lines.'
Of the people at Home--whom we at the Front have relied upon and looked to