The reader is hereby cautioned against regarding this narrative as an
official history of the Great War.
The following pages are merely a record of some of the personal
adventures of a typical regiment of Kitchener's Army.
The chapters were written from day to day, and published from month to
month. Consequently, prophecy is occasionally falsified, and opinions
moderated, in subsequent pages.
The characters are entirely fictitious, but the incidents described
all actually occurred.