
A Lively Bit of the Front: A Tale of the New Zealand Rifles on the Western Front
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Chapters (38)
- A LIVELY BIT OF THE FRONT
- BLACKIE & SON LIMITED 50 Old Bailey, LONDON 17 Stanhope Street, GLASGOW
- A LIVELY BIT OF THE FRONT
- A Tale of the New Zealand Rifles on the Western Front
- PERCY F. WESTERMAN
- BLACKIE & SON LIMITED
- Illustrations
- A LIVELY BIT OF THE FRONT
- CHAPTER I Malcolm Carr's Decision
- CHAPTER II No. 99,109, R/M Carr
- CHAPTER III The First Trek
- CHAPTER IV The Interrupted Concert
- CHAPTER V Broken down in Mid-ocean
- CHAPTER VI Man Overboard
- CHAPTER VII Quits!
- CHAPTER VIII Left Behind
- CHAPTER IX In the Ring
- CHAPTER X Volunteers for the Stokehold
- CHAPTER XI Cornered
- CHAPTER XII Running the Gauntlet
- CHAPTER XIII News of Peter
- CHAPTER XIV The Anzacs' Hoax
- CHAPTER XV The Eve of Messines
- CHAPTER XVI Konrad von Feldoffer
- CHAPTER XVII Over the Top
- CHAPTER XVIII The Captured Trench
- CHAPTER XIX Trapped in a Dug-out
- CHAPTER XX The Way Out
- CHAPTER XXI Out of Touch
- CHAPTER XXII A Prisoner of War
- CHAPTER XXIII At Düren Camp
- CHAPTER XXIV Escape
- CHAPTER XXV On the Barge
- CHAPTER XXVI At the Frontier
- CHAPTER XXVII The End of a Spy
- CHAPTER XXVIII In the Firing-line Again
- CHAPTER XXIX The Battle in the Mud
- CHAPTER XXX The Last Stand
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