Over the Top (Classic Reprint)

FOREWORD
DURING sixteen years of "roughing it, " knocking
around the world, I have rubbed against the high
and low and have had ample opportunity of studying,
at close range, many different peoples, their
ideals, political and otherwise, their hopes and
principles. Through this elbow rubbing, and not
from reading, I have become convinced of the
nobility, truth, and justice of the Allies' cause, and
know their fight to be our fight, because it espouses
the principles of the United States of America,
democracy, justice, and liberty.
To the average American who has not lived and
fought with him, the Englishman appears to be
distant, reserved, a slow thinker, and lacking in
humor, but from my association with the man
who inhabits the British Isles, I find that this
opinion is unjust. To me, Tommy Atkins has
proved himself to be the best of mates, a pal, and
bubbling over with a fine sense of humor, a man
with a just cause who is willing to sacrifice everything
but h

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I-FROM MUFTI TO KHAKI 1; II-BLIGHTY TO REST BILLETS 12; 111-1 Go TO CHURCH 24; IV-uINTO THE TRENCH" 27; Yo-MUD, RATS, AND SHELLS 33; VI-" BACK OF THE LINE" 0 39; VI I-RATIONS 46; VIII-THE LITTLE WOODEN CROSS 54; IX-SUICIDE ANNEX 60; X-"THE DAY'S WORK" 63; XI-OVER THE Top 69; XII-BoMBING 78; XIII-M Y FIRST OFFICIAL BATH 87; XIVo-PICKS AND SHOVELS 92; XVo-LISTENING POST 103; XVI-BATTERY D 238 108; XVII-OUT IN FRONT 131 CHAPTER; XVII I-STAGED UNDER FIRE; XIX-ON HIS OVN; XX-" CHATS 'VITH FRITZ"; XXL-ABOUT TUR~; XXI I-PUNIsHMENTS AND MACHINE-GUN; PAGE; 135; 145; 158; 167; STU~TS 177; XXIII-GAS ATTACKS AND SPIES 187; XXIV-THE FIRING