Contents
List of Maps
Introduction: Clash of Dreams
Part I. Dramatis Personae
1. Brother and Sister
2. A Man of No Illusions
3. A Clergyman’s Daughter
4. Holy Warriors
5. Boy Miner
6. On the Eve
Part II. 1914
7. A Strange Light
8. As Swimmers into Cleanness Leaping
9. The God of Right Will Watch the Fight
Part III. 1915
10. This Isn’t War
11. In the Thick of It
12. Not This Tide
Part IV. 1916
13. We Regret Nothing
14. God, God, Where’s the Rest of the Boys?
15. Casting Away Arms
Part V. 1917
16. Between the Lion’s Jaws
17. The World Is My Country
18. Drowning on Land
19. Please Don’t Die
Part VI. 1918
20. Backs to the Wall
21. There Are More Dead Than Living Now
Part VII. Exeunt Omnes
22. The Devil’s Own Hand
23. An Imaginary Cemetery
Source Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author