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List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Prologue: “The War Was the Making of Me” xvii 1. “Give Me A Man’s Job” 1 2. “Shall We Fight for England?” 19 3. “Rainbow—There’s the Name for the Division” 31 4. “Did You Ever Go Into an Irishman’s Shanty?” 55 5. “Good-bye Broadway, Hello France!” 69 6. “It’s a Huge Regiment Now” 77 7. “The People I Like Best Are the Wild Irish” 89 8. “A Willing, Bright, Strong, Clean Lot” 103 9. “Not a Gloomy Man in Town” 113 10. “Most Pitiful and Unsightly Bunch of Men I Have Ever Seen” 123 11. “We Are All Volunteers in This War” 137 12. “In the Wood They Call the Rouge Bouquet” 153 13. “Quiet Sectors Are Not Necessarily Quiet” 177 14. “From a Canny Scot to a Bold Irishman” 193 15. “It Will Be a Happy Day” 209 16. “The Last Joy Ride Any of Us’ll Ever Get” 233 17. “All You Want Now Is Guts and Bayonets!” 249 18. “I Guess I Have Been Born to Be Hanged” 267 19. “We Sure Hated to See Him Get Killed” 281 Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents vii 20. “I Have Been Very Happy in Command of the Regiment” 297 21. “Not a Fight, But a Promenade” 311 22. “Over the River a Thousand Yawning Dead” 331 23. “You Expected to Have the Pleasure of Burying Me” 349 24. “We Looked Down from the Last Crest Above Sedan” 361 Epilogue: “We Want Him. We Need Him. He Has Earned It.” 373 Notes 381 Selected Bibliography 413 Index 423 About the Author 435 viii CONTENTS ...

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