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MY YEAR OF THE GREAT WAR




_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_


  GOING TO WAR IN GREECE
  THE WAYS OF THE SERVICE
  THE VAGABOND
  WITH KUROKI IN MANCHURIA
  OVER THE PASS
  THE LAST SHOT
  MY YEAR OF THE GREAT WAR




  MY YEAR OF THE
  GREAT WAR

  BY
  FREDERICK PALMER

  Author of “The Last Shot,” “With Kuroki in Manchuria,”
  “The Vagabond,” etc.


  [Illustration]


  Toronto
  McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart
  Limited




  COPYRIGHT, 1915
  BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY


  _First Edition_ OCTOBER
  _Second, Third and Fourth Editions_ NOVEMBER
  _Fifth Edition_ DECEMBER


  Printed in U. S. A.




TO THE READER


In “The Last Shot,” which appeared only a few months before the Great
War began, drawing from my experience in many wars, I attempted to
describe the character of a conflict between two great European
land-powers, such as France and Germany.

“You were wrong in some ways,” a friend writes to me, “but in other
ways it is almost as if you had written a play and they were following
your script and stage business.”

Wrong as to the duration of the struggle and its bitterness; right
about the part which artillery would play; right in suggesting the
stalemate of intrenchments when vast masses of troops occupied the
length of a frontier. Had the