Table of Contents

I. From Peace to WarII. Le Havre and HarfleurIII. From Le Havre to the Bay of BiscayIV. From the Bay of Biscay to East of ParisV. The Advance to the MarneVI. What I Saw of the Battle of the MarneVII. The Night of the MarneVIII. From the Marne to the AisneIX. The Aisne and the Tragedy of the Sunken RoadX. Missy on the AisneXI. On the Aisne at Mont de SoissonsXII. Field Ambulances and Military HospitalsXIII. Good-Bye to the AisneXIV. The La Bassée Road at Château GorreXV. BethuneXVI. Some Medical Odds and EndsXVII. We Leave BethuneXVIII. Over the Belgian FrontierXIX. We Leave Belgium 

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A firsthand account of medicine in the field of war by one of the most respected field surgeons of World War I.

About the Author

Arthur Anderson Martin (1876–1916) served in France and Belgium during World War I. Wounded at Flers during the Somme battle on September 17, 1916, Martin died in the base hospital that same night. Glyn Harper (Lt. Col., retired) is a professor of war studies at Massey University in New Zealand and was the commanding officer of the Military Studies Institute from 1996 to 2000. He is the author of seventeen books, most recently Images of World War One: A Photographic Record of New Zealanders at War, 1914–1918.