Letters from France
LETTERS FROM FRANCE by C. E. W. BEAN War Correspondent for the Commonwealth of Australia With a Map and Eight Plates [Illustration: AUSTRALIANS WATCHING THE BOMBARDMENT OF POZIERES Their mates were beneath that bombardment at the time]
LONDON:
WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED,
NEW YORK & MELBOURNE.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO _My Dear Father_, WHOSE HIGH TYPE OF
PATRIOTISM, STEADFAST LOYALTY TO THE GOVERNMENT, AND DEVOTION TO HIS
FAMILY HAVE TAUGHT ME WHEREIN LIE THE IDEALS OF LIFE.
Preface
If the critical public had cared to snub Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie and Bee, I,
who am a fighting champion of theirs, would never have run the risk of
boring it by a further chronicle of their travels. But from a careful
survey of my mail, I may say that the present volume of their doings and
undoings is a direct result of the friendships they formed in "As Seen
LETTERS FROM FRANCE by C. E. W. BEAN War Correspondent for the Commonwealth of Australia With a Map and Eight Plates [Illustration: AUSTRALIANS WATCHING THE BOMBARDMENT OF POZIERES Their mates were beneath that bombardment at the time]