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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Letters from France, by C. E. W. Bean This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Letters from France Author: C. E. W. Bean Release Date: May 14, 2006 [eBook #18390] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTERS FROM FRANCE*** E-text prepared by Elaine Walker, Paul Ereaut, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 18390-h.htm or 18390-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/3/9/18390/18390-h/18390-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/3/9/18390/18390-h.zip) LETTERS FROM FRANCE by C. E. W. BEAN War Correspondent for the Commonwealth of Australia With a Map and Eight Plates [Illustration: AUSTRALIANS WATCHING THE BOMBARDMENT OF POZIERES Their mates were beneath that bombardment at the time] Cassell and Company, Ltd London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1917 To those other Australians who fell in the Sharpest Action their Force has known, on July 19, 1916, before Fromelles, these Memories of a Greater, but not a Braver, Battle are herewith Dedicated PREFACE These letters are in no sense a history--except that they contain the truth. They were written at the time and within close range of the events they describe. Half of the fighting, including the brave attack before Fromelles, is left untouched on, for these pages do not attempt to narrate the full story of the Australian Imperial Force in France. They were written to depict the surroundings in which, and the spirit with which, that history has been made; first in the quiet green Flemish lowlands, then with a swift, sudden plunge into the grim, reeking, naked desolation of the Somme. The record of the A.I.F., and its now historical units in their full action, will be painted upon that background some day. If these letters convey some reflection of the spirit which fought at Pozieres, their object is well fulfilled. The author's profits are devoted to the fund for nursi
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