Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather
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Bullets & Billets
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Title: Bullets & Billets
Author: Bruce Bairnsfather
Release Date: February 23, 2004 [EBook #11232]
Language: English
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Bullets & Billets
By Bruce Bairnsfather
1916
TO MY OLD PALS, "BILL," "BERT," AND "ALF," WHO HAVE SAT IN THE MUD WITH ME
CHAPTER I
Landing at Havre--Tortoni's--Follow the tram lines--Orders for the Front.
CHAPTER II
Tortuous travelling--Clippers and tablets--Dumped at a siding--I join my Battalion.
CHAPTER III
Those Plugstreet trenches--Mud and rain--Flooded out--A hopeless dawn.
CHAPTER IV
More mud--Rain and bullets--A bit of cake--"Wind up"--Night rounds.
CHAPTER V
My man Friday--"Chuck us the biscuits"--Relieved--Billets.
CHAPTER VI
The Transport Farm--Fleeced by the Flemish--Riding--