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- The War Stories of Private Thomas Atkins
- CONTENTS
- “BLOW! BUGLES, BLOW!”
- THE WAR STORIES OF PRIVATE THOMAS ATKINS
- I. MARCHING TO WAR
- Keepsakes
- Want Nothing
- “Cheer, Boys, Cheer”
- Couldn’t Understand!
- Those Highlanders
- Her “Soldat”
- Delightfully Hungry
- Dandy Lads
- Flowers and Favours
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
- Pat’s Mishap
- A Comparison
- Church Bells
- Invited Out!
- Triumphant
- Thinking of Home
- II. THINGS BY THE WAY
- Safe!
- Perfectly Happy
- “Du Pain!”
- A Song of a Shirt
- Like Rob Roy
- On and Off
- A Baby Bunting
- Early Piety
- Quiet and Restful
- On the Quiet!
- Sweetness—and Rain!
- Comfortable!
- Sucking Eggs!
- To his Mother
- A Far Journey
- A River of Joy
- III. THE FRIENDLY FRENCH
- “A Sport”
- “Coo Naht”
- So Hospitable!
- The “Entente”
- Praise Indeed
- “A Blooming Nuisance”
- Brave Women
- Only Water Left
- “Good Sports”
- “Give You Anything”
- Bearded like Pards
- “Fag” Making
- The Little Children
- In Hospital
- Well Pleased
- “Bonnie Fighters”
- “No Germany!”
- No Singing Birds
- Quite Royal!
- IV. THE ENEMY GERMAN
- “Mister Bull!”
- Not Suited to It
- Christian
- A Doubting Doctor
- X-Rayed
- Took the “Bully”
- “Roll on, London!”
- Captured Uhlans
- Grave-digging
- A Barber in Lambeth
- Berlin “Nuts”
- “Collies?”
- The Track of the Huns
- Got the Guns
- “Made in Germany”
- “Over the Shoulder”
- No Chocolates
- Kill or Wound?
- A Lucky Escape
- False Bugle-calls
- A Tell-tale Diary
- V. CAMPAIGNING IN GENERAL
- Wanted a Hat!
- A Day in Bed
- Lost!
- Looked After
- “Have You a Light?”
- Don’t Know!
- The Cannon’s Roar
- Hard Lines
- Roughing It!
- A Sing-song
- One Blessing
- Not Worrying
- Scrap Iron
- Not Swept Away Yet
- From the Hip
- A Cupboard Skeleton
- Food for Powder
- Not Good Shots
- Adam without an Eden
- The Enviable “Terriers”
- Pea-shooters
- Had “To Nip”
- “Fairly Well”
- Rained on
- Quagmires and “Mug Racks”
- Cave-dwellers
- Contour Maps
- A Disturbed Dinner
- Petrol Power
- “Crackers!”
- A Near Shave
- “Poor Old Bones!”
- VI. BATTLES IN BEING
- Unexpected
- Turpinite
- Took Off the Roof!
- Lancashire!
- Up Aloft!
- His Own Back
- Sleep Through Anything
- “Lucky, Considering”
- Nothing Wasted
- Those Uhlans
- Stonewalling!
- The Way of It
- Like an Exodus
- A Long, Long Day
- Every House a Fort
- A Gallant Sky Pilot
- The Unexpected
- No Love Lost
- “Up, Guards,” and at ’Em?
- Clearing Them Out
- Steady, Boys, Steady!
- Scared Gun-Horses
- A Cameron Man
- The Cold Steel
- “Is This Death?”
- Spoiled Their Appetite
- “A Jigsaw Puzzle”
- “Erin Go Bragh!”
- A Midnight Move
- A High Ordeal
- VII. WHAT THE SOLDIER SEES
- A Good Night
- A Far View
- Brave Women
- Fatherly
- Proud Indeed!
- Wilted!
- Enjoying Ourselves
- Held Up!
- Not So “Swanky”
- Undaunted
- “Rotten Luck”
- Near Shaves
- Custom!
- Buried and Burnt
- “That Tired Feeling”
- Lucky Fellow!
- So Glad!
- The Gallant Belgians
- In the Dark
- A Bold Battery
- Before the Dawn
- Rescued
- A “Jelly Fish”
- Cold—and Hot!
- “Knocked!”
- In a Château
- “Made Good!”
- A “Terrible Time”
- His True Colours
- A Barricade
- Wounded and Waiting
- VIII. HOW IT FEELS UNDER FIRE
- Inconceivable!
- Gets Used to It
- Gay to Grave
- Encouraged
- Wondering!
- Jubilant
- Mad!
- Know nor Care
- An “Infernal Din”
- Splendid but Awful
- How It Happened
- Joe to Bill
- The Stuffing Wrong
- Guarded!
- A Scamper
- Causes Deafness
- Twenty to One
- Under Difficulties
- Not Troubling
- The Pictures!
- Healing Nicely!
- Dazed, but There
- “A Mad Crew”
- Saving a Battery
- Salt and Cigarettes
- Like an Electric Shock
- Given up Worrying
- Safe as Houses
- Stunned!
- His Fire Baptism!
- Smoke—and Fire!
- “Punched!”
- IX. CORNERS IN THE FIGHT
- Footsore
- Couldn’t Miss
- What Ho!
- Grand Fighting
- Swept Away
- Giving a Hand
- Came Down Dead!
- Fisticuffs
- Not to be Shot
- Promoted Corporal
- Uhlans or Hussars
- Soon be Better
- In Luck!
- Mighty Cool
- Three Times
- A Marvellous Escape
- Warm Work
- “Breath-stoppers”
- Ghostly!
- Blue with Lead
- Don’t Mind!
- Not Much Left
- One More River
- A Revolver Story
- At the Fords
- War—and Peace!
- Hard Going!
- Connaught Rangers
- The Best of It
- Charge of the London Scots
- Beside a Windmill
- Against Big Odds
- “Nesting” Time
- X. HIT AND MISSED
- A “Charmed Life”
- The Seventh Time
- Making a Hole
- A Hero Indeed
- A Changed View
- “Oh, Bill!”
- “Hell on Earth”
- His Kilt Torn
- “Not Me!”
- A Pat on the Ankle
- Doing Well
- Blown Up!
- Disagreeable
- Green Fireworks
- Heavy Fire
- Dead as a Nail
- Stone Dead
- Kicked
- Killed Instantly
- Waited for Them
- A Clover Field
- A Busy Marksman
- Bits of Shrapnel
- In the Eye
- “’Nuf Said”
- Made Comfortable
- Couldn’t Move
- “Flying All Round”
- Got Away
- “Got Me, Too!”
- A Passing Shell
- Stuck to Him
- Anchored!
- Carted to Hospital
- XI. ADVANCE AND RETREAT
- “NO-o-o!”
- A Bold Front
- “Shifting” Them
- Dug It Out
- “Stand Solid!”
- The Dying German
- Disturbed!
- “Annie Laurie”
- “Few! Few!”
- “Hard Neck”
- Thank Goodness!
- The Great Retreat
- Outnumbered
- “The Old British Way”
- Covered with Straw
- Nothing to be Seen
- “A Horrible Trade-mark”
- Blown Sky High
- Rescued!
- A “Sensational Feeling”
- “Silence Those Guns!”
- Playing at Soldiers!
- Kept the Guns
- Taking Risks
- Broke the Line
- A “Hot Shop”
- “Talk About Excitement!”
- Balaclava Style
- A Night Surprise
- No Fight Left
- All Sorts of Sacrifices
- XII. IN THE TRENCHES
- Sniping!
- The Bayonet!
- A Good Sleeper
- Those Apples
- Four Feet Down
- Its Billet
- Taking a German
- Another Rocket
- Too Late!
- Might Shake Hands
- A Football Talk
- Feeling Led
- Walnuts and Guards
- Banging Away
- All’s Fair!
- Unnerving!
- Caps and Helmets
- Spectral
- Buried Alive
- Cut and Thrust
- Robinson Crusoe
- Swarms of Them
- Moving!
- Come On!
- Brave Deeds
- “Shifting Them!”
- Bullets and “Footer”
- Gallant Frenchmen
- Hoist!
- “One Red Burial Blent”
- XIII. GALLANT DEEDS
- A Hand-shake!
- Unhurt!
- What the Irish Did
- “A Regular Devil”
- “Into ’Em, Lads!”
- The Old Royals
- Gallantry
- Brought Him In
- Skedaddled!
- An Air Duel
- Under Heavy Fire
- Never Say Die!
- Onward and Away!
- Hit Four Times
- Sticking to Him
- “Boldly They Rode!”
- “Basted” Him!
- Help the Others!
- Facing Death
- “Scotland for Ever!”
- Succouring the Wounded
- Up the Hill
- Harry Lauder’s Songs
- Didn’t Know Defeat
- Duty and—Death
- “He Saved Others”
- Heroes All
- XIV. TALES OF TRAGEDY
- Invaded!
- Better Dead!
- Of Wife and Child
- Loot!
- The Roll call
- Reading Ruskin
- “All Right!”
- Keepsakes!
- Nellie’s Anxiety
- The Dog It Was!
- The Trail of the Sword
- His Loved Ones
- Vultures
- A Song of Death
- No More Cold Trenches
- A Lady’s Handkerchief
- All Gone
- Fired!
- One Taken!
- A Dash for It
- A Cave Disaster
- An Irish Rifle
- The Worst Part
- XV. ANECDOTES OF HUMOUR
- “Blime!”
- The Proof of It
- Laughter!
- A Great Game
- “Fine Feeds”
- No Tango in Paris
- L.B.W.!
- Irish and Merry
- Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!
- Surrounded Them
- Joking not Apart
- Left the Duck
- Swimming for Them
- Asked for Him
- Mighty Particular
- Swear Words
- Maids of All Work
- Step Outside
- Didn’t Wait!
- Kaiser and Highlander
- “Shove-Ha’penny”
- Comments
- “Mein Gott!”
- “Tickets, Please!”
- No Uhlans Need Apply!
- Cooking Their Dinner
- Business as Usual
- For Neuralgia!
- “The Wearin’ o’ the Green!”
- Not a Yarn
- “Hallo, Old Tin Hat!”
- Orange and Green
- XVI. STORIES OF SACRIFICE
- Poor Minnie!
- His Last Wish
- The Christian Way
- Asked for the Colours
- Not a Murmur
- Saving a Tragedy
- Going Home!
- Like Jackie!
- Lit His “Fag”
- Cheerful in Verse
- Succouring the Enemy
- A Splendid Corporal
- A Yorkshire “Tyke”
- The Other Man!
- A Costly Apple
- No Hesitation
- Glorious Examples
- A Kindly German
- Driven Out!
- Cried Like Babies
- The “Kiddies”
- Finely Done
- What McCabe Did
- Taking the Salute
- A Brave Sergeant
- Officer and Gentleman
- The Spirit of Old
- “Hallelujah!”
- “A Rare Good One”
- XVII. THE MAN AMID WAR
- “All’s Well”
- The Beginning
- Holed!
- Jammy!
- Next for Shaving
- A Strange Meeting
- “All We Want”
- Dare-Devils
- An Evil Eye!
- Signed the Pledge!
- The Balm of Baccy
- His Spare Time
- Wet, But Exciting
- “Nearer, my God, to Thee”
- Happy all the Day
- “Supreme Beings”
- “Who Goes There?”
- “Mum’s the Word”
- The Impossible Order
- The Valiant Spirit
- Spared!
- Jolly Boys are We!
- The “Born Grousers”
- Well Tended
- “Archibald” a Drawback
- “Here Comes the Last”
- Saved by a Curé
- After the Battle
- XVIII. THE COMMON TASK
- Busy!
- “Really Good”
- A Great Time!
- In Mourning
- Consolations
- All Smiles!
- The Pot Boiling
- The Old Horse
- No More Collecting
- Worthy of Tom Brown
- Wonderfully Popular
- Messing Together
- “Merry and Bright”
- Next, Please!
- That “Interest”
- Sad and Glad
- Unexpected!
- Tempting Grapes
- “Our Menu!”
- Trust Thomas!
- Night Duty
- Sea Echoes
- The Motor-Man
- An Interpreter
- A Proper Adventure
- “Culture” for Them
- Cooking no Joke
- Let Down Lightly
- XIX. MATTERS IN GENERAL
- The Kilt
- Proper Officers
- Scented!
- Bottles All the Way
- Brain and Muscle
- A True Dream
- “Tough Nuts”
- No Football!
- Hungry!
- Animal Instinct
- Sacramental
- Sportsmen!
- Praise and Song
- Convalescent!
- A Strange “Bisley”
- “Tiddlers!”
- Grace—and Food
- Polus!
- “Gey Hard!”
- “Terribly Put Out”
- A Fortunate One
- Joke, but No Beer
- The Country Round
- “Jambon!”
- XX. SUMMING IT UP
- “Chin-Waggers”
- The Better Man
- No Anxiety
- Volunteers!
- The Popular C.I.C.
- The Wrong Horse
- Close Fighting
- Mud—and Glory
- What Thinks the Kaiser?
- Professional!
- “Cracking Up!”
- Easily the Best
- The Whip Hand
- The Pathos of It
- The London Bus
- Putting up with It
- Rubbing It In
- The Franco-British Team
- Music and Lunch
- The Indian Men
- A Happy Ending
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