... phases in the war. The writer, who was third and youngest son of the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, fell in the battle of the Somme, July 1. 1916. That he would have made, had he lived, a name of note in the world of poetry cannot be doubted by anyone ...

... Carrying On aftei the First Hundred Thousand. From the Battle of Loos to the Battle of the Somme, The Junior Sub., Ian Hay, carries on with The Carrying On after the First Hundred Thousand (Blackwood). Gone were the days, he says, when sitting close ...

... grimly humorous and sympathetic, a genuine book which should not be missed. Si, Si, When that excellent film of the Battle of the Somme was released for home consump tion, there were some knowing souls who had visions of a camera safely implanted in a ...

... second volume carries the story from the close of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 to the end of Haig's life. For many people the chief interest will lie in the seventy-five pages on the genesis and battle of Passchendaele. Broadly speaking, the causes which ...

... phases in the war. The writer, who was third and youngest son of the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich/fell in the battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916. That he would have made, had he lived, a name of note in the world of poetry cannot be doubted by anyone ...

... A Vivid Story of the Somme A ttack, by Edward Liveing (Heinemann). This small book appeared originally in the form of an article in Blackwood' s Magazine. It tells the story of the opening day of the great battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916, as it was ...

... a hospital ward he is a man of forty-one who remembers nothing after the previous shock of a wound received in the Battle of the Somme seventeen years previously. His mentality slips back to its development at the age of twenty-four, and the intervening ...

... Bristol Btn the Gloucestershire Regiment. The battalion more than played its part in the Great War, as is shown by its battle honours the Somme, 1916, Albert, 1916, Langemarck, 1917, Ypres, 1917 Bazentin, Pozieres and Poelcapelle and now a new chapter in its ...

... soldier attempting to carry on with a pack of politicians snarling for ever at his heels. This volume ends with the Battle of the Somme. Its opinions are as clear and decisive as the character of its subject. The politicians have had their say Haig still ...

... difficult man to popularise. There is quoted a letter written by him while on the visit he paid to the Front, during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. It reveals a steadiness and adaptability most remarkable in a man of his age. It also reveals an impersonality ...

... I Books of the Week I gg TWO WAR-BOOKS AND A NOVEL War Pictures IN The Battles of the Somme (Heinemann: 6s. net) Mr. Philip Gibbs, most graphic of war correspondents, decided to republish his despatches, hurriedly written in odd corners and to the tune ...