It only remains to add that the importance of Mr. Boyd Cable’s work may be judged by the fact that of “Between the Lines” considerably over a hundred thousand copies have been printed in Great Britain alone. THE PUBLISHERS. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. TOWARDS THE PUSH 15 II. THE OVERTURE OF THE GUNS 26 III. THE EDGE OF BATTLE 37 IV. ACROSS THE OPEN 50 V. ON CAPTURED GROUND 69 VI. TAKING PUNISHMENT 79 VII. BLIND MAN’S BUFF 98 VIII. OVER THE TOP 112 IX. A SIDE SHOW 134 X. THE COUNTER ATTACK 152 XI. FORWARD OBSERVING 179 XII. A VILLAGE AND A HELMET 201 XIII. WITH THE TANKS 229 XIV. THE BATTLE HYMN 244 XV. CASUALTIES 253 XVI. PLAY OUT THE GAME 275 BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC _Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fatal lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on._ _I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps: I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on._ _I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: “As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal”; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel! Since God is marching on!_ _He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat, He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh! be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on._ _In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born, across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on._ _He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave; He is wisdom to the mighty, He is succor to the brave; So the world shall be His footstool and the soul of time His slave: Our God is marching on._ JULIA WARD HOWE. AUTHOR’S FOREWORD