This book contains a fictionalised account of the day-to-day experiences of soldiers in Kitchener’s Army, the voluntary section of the British Army formed following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Although the characters are a work of fiction, the incidents described all actually occurred. The story was originally contributed in the form of an anonymous narrative to Blackwood’s Magazine . Contents include: The Daily Grind , Growing Pains , The Conversion of Private M'Slattery , Crime , The Laws of the Medes and Persians , Shooting Straight , Billets , Mid-Channel , Deeds of Darkness , Olympus , … And Some Fell by the Wayside , etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.