The Emma Gees
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Machine Gunners in the trenches The First World War was waged on an industrial scale, utilising every conceivable advantage of invention and technology. Fought on land, in the skies and on and beneath the sea it was the first true conflict of the modern age. In the land war infantry soldiers were introduced to efficient artillery, poison gas, the flame thrower, the tank and the devastatingly simple killer that was the barbed wire entanglement. Development in firearms had advanced, by comparison, quite slowly and soldiers were still mostly armed with single round firing weapons. However, the in...
Chapters (243)
- THE EMMA GEES
- THE EMMA GEES
- HERBERT W. McBRIDE
- Captain, U. S. A. Late Twenty-first Canadian Battalion
- To The Memory Of
- William Emmanuel Bouchard
- INTRODUCTION
- NEW NAMES FOR OLD LETTERS
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE EMMA GEES
- CHAPTER I
- Headed for the Kaiser
- CHAPTER II
- Straight to the Front
- CHAPTER III
- In the Midst of a Battle-Field
- CHAPTER IV
- Eight Days In
- CHAPTER V
- At Captain's Post
- CHAPTER VI
- Our Own Cheerful Fashion
- CHAPTER VII
- Sniper's Barn
- CHAPTER VIII
- Getting the Flag
- CHAPTER IX
- Hunting Huns
- CHAPTER X
- A Fine Day for Murder
- CHAPTER XI
- Without Hope of Reward
- CHAPTER XII
- THE WAR IN THE AIR
- CHAPTER XIII
- The Battle of St. Eloi
- CHAPTER XIV
- Fourteen Days' Fighting
- CHAPTER XV
- Blighty and Back
- CHAPTER XVI
- Out in Front Fighting
- CHAPTER XVII
- Down an Out--for a While
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