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Download or read book The Amateur Army written by Patrick MacGill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amateur Army by Patrick MacGill CHAPTER I I Enlist and am Billeted What the psychological processes were that led to my enlisting in "Kitchener's Army" need not be inquired into. Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive. There is a story told of an incident that occurred in Flanders, which shows clearly the view held in certain quarters. The Honourable Artillery Company were relieving some regulars in the trenches when the following dialogue ensued between a typical Tommy Atkins and an H.A.C. private: T.A.: "Oo are you?" H.A.C.: "We're the H.A.C." T.A.: "Gentlemen, ain't yer?" H.A.C.: "Oh well, in a way I suppose-" T.A.: "'Ow many are there of yer?" H.A.C.: "About eight hundred." T.A.: "An' they say yer volunteered!" H.A.C.: "Yes, we did." T.A.: (With conviction as he gathers together his kit). "Blimey, yer must be mad!" We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

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Download or read book The Amateur Army written by Patrick MacGill and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerpt: and never less. But a few days ago, when weighing sugar and tea, a blast of wind upset the scales, and a second allowance met with a similar fate. Sugar and tea littered the pavement, and finally the woman supplied her soldiers from the household stores. She now leaves the work of distribution in the hands of the ration party, and takes what is given to her without grumbling. The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast. About nine o'clock in the evening those who cannot afford to pay for extras feel their waist-belts slacken, and go supperless to bed. And tea is not a very substantial meal; the rations served out for the day have decreased in bulk, bread has wasted to microscopic proportions, and the cheese has diminished sadly in size. A regimental song, pent with soldierly woes, bitterly bemoans the drawbacks of Tommy's tea: "Bread and cheese for breakfast, For din Read More

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Download or read book Blown in by the Draft Camp Yarns Collected at One of the Great National Army Cantonments by an Amateur War Correspondent Classic Reprint written by Frazier Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Blown in by the Draft, Camp Yarns Collected at One of the Great, National Army Cantonments by an Amateur War Correspondent The majority of these camp sketches first appeared from day to day in the columns of the New York Sun. The chronicler is deeply grateful to the Sun for permission to gather them together between two covers and to turn them into a more or less permanent annal of a great National Army cantonment. In the title and now and again in the text the word "draft" appears. For a considerable period in formative months of the National Army this was assiduously avoided and "selective service" substituted. But now what sting there might once have been has disappeared and it stands an honoured word. To-day a draft recruit wears his "O. D." as proudly and soon will fight - or already is fighting - as gallantly as any other American soldier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Army Mule and Other War Sketches Classic Reprint written by Henry A. Castle and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Army Mule and Other War Sketches About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book It s a Way They Have in the Army Classic Reprint written by Helen Forbes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from It's a Way They Have in the Army Fortunately for England, the House of Lords is full of a great many more men of this stamp than of the bad subjects so common in novels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book Boy s Book of the Army Classic Reprint written by Gen. Charles King and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Boy's Book of the Army For the most part these stories of brave deeds in army life show the kind of men who guarded our West in the days of hostile Indians. While these tales are usually fiction, yet the fiction is usually founded upon some incident of actual occurrence. The old frontier posts have now disappeared. They were centres of a life of adventure and often of a silent heroism, in which women and children as well as officers and men bore their full share. It was a lonely life, but full of picturesque incident and thrilling experiences, as these pages show. Many adventures of Uncle Sam's soldiers are told in the volumes of Harpers Strange Stories from History, which sketch events in our great wars. In the present volume it has seemed peculiarly worth while to afford a glimpse of the soldiers work in clearing the way for civilization upon this continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Amateur Rodmaking Classic Reprint written by Perry D. Frazer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Amateur Rodmaking The army of young - and other - men who are fond of doing things themselves is very large, and growing. To them this book may, I trust, prove to be helpful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Recollections of an Eventful Life written by Joseph Donaldson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of an Eventful Life: Chiefly Passed in the Army MY dear M enclosed with this letter, I have Sent you the rude Sketch of my life, which I promised to forward, when I last saw you. It has been written by snatches, now and then, when I could find Opportunity; and I have been induced to finish it more hastily than I at first intended, in conse quence of expectin g to leave Britain, once more, for a foreign station: whence it is doubtfiil whether I may ever return. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book An Army Mule Classic Reprint written by Charles Miner Thompson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Army Mule Rufe Holt, Job's orphan chore-boy, his wide-brimmed straw hat pushed far back on his head, his brown, bare toes curled round the rungs of the chair in which he was Sitting, and his hands thrust behind the bib of his old blue overalls, looked on with dejected eyes. Rufe was sure that Job would now give up the farm, and go to live in the village, and that, consequently, he would have no longer any use for a chore-boy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Army Boys in France Or From Training Camp to Trenches Classic Reprint written by Homer Randall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Army Boys in France, or From Training Camp to Trenches Looks like war, fellows! Exclaimed Frank Sheldon, as, on a cold March morning he came briskly into the business house where he was employed, and slipped off his overcoat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The New Army in Training Classic Reprint written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Army in Training The ore, the furnace and the hammer are all that is needed for a sword. - Native proverb. This was a cantonment one had never seen before, and the grey-haired military police man could give no help. 'My experience, ' he spoke detachedly. 'is that you'll find everything everywhere Is it any particular corps you're looking for?' 'Not in the least, ' I said. 'Then you're all right. You can't miss getting something.' He pointed generally to the North Camp. 'It's like floods in a town, isn't it?' He had hit the just word. All known marks in the place were submerged by troops. Parade grounds to their utmost limits were crowded with them; rises and sky-lines were furred with them, and the length of the roads heaved and rippled like bicycle-chains with blocks of men on the move. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book In Blue Uniform written by George I. Putnam and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Blue Uniform: An Army Novel In the time of which I write the Old Regi ment was furbishing up its battered accoutre ments after one campaign, and getting itself in handsome trim for another: This was an occupation that palled upon it after a little, for it smacked of the smug safety of civil life. Its forte lay in the field. It had a way of going forth with more cartridges and men than another regiment, and of coming back with fewer. That was why all the young men with a life apiece to throw away quickly, made haste to enlist with the Old Regiment. But now its chief end seemed to be to draw an oiled rag through a shiny gun-barrel - an occupation for old soldiers with a satiated taste for fighting. And garrison days were unconscionably long in coming to an end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.