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  ATTACK




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  ATTACK

  AN INFANTRY SUBALTERN'S IMPRESSIONS
  OF JULY 1ST, 1916

  BY
  EDWARD G.D. LIVEING


  WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
  JOHN MASEFIELD


  New York

  THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
  1918

  _All rights reserved_




  COPYRIGHT, 1918
  BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

  Set up and electrotyped. Published, April, 1918




  TO

  THE N.C.O.s

  AND

  MEN OF No. 5 PLATOON

  Of a Battalion of the County of London
  Regiment, whom I had the good
  fortune to command in France
  during 1915-1916, and in
  particular to the
  memory of
  RFN. C.N. DENNISON
  My Platoon Observer, who fell in action
  July 