From Bapaume to Passchendaele

The story of 1917 on the western front is told in these pages by a well-known Catholic war-correspondent. It was a year of ceaseless battle and desperate conflict with its days of "attack and counter-attack, all the roads of war crowded with troops and transport, the coming back of the prisoners by hundreds and thousands, the long trails of the wounded, the activity, the traffic, the roar, and welter and fury of war." Day by day Philip Gibbs went through all the stirring scenes that have gone to make history, living the life of the soldier yet seeing much more than the soldier who can only see his own special part.