Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Black Watch a Record in Action
From Mons to the Marne lies the bloodiest trail of sacrifice in history. In all the rec ords of war, there stands forth no more mag nificent and no more melancholy achievement than that of the British regular army, which bled its heroic way in ever-diminishing num bers from the challenge to the check of the initial German sweep upon Paris. It could not hope for decisive victory; it could only clog the wheels of the Juggernaut with lives and lives and lives, sold bravely and dearly. Before a countless superiority of numbers and an incalculable advantage in enemy prepared ness, it could only stand, and fall - and stand again, and fall - until the end; when the cause of the Allies was saved for the hour, and of French's hundred thousand there remained barely a little leaven of trained men for the British forces then assembling to learn the trade of warfare.
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