{"product_id":"2940013417984","title":"THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND","description":"By Ian Hay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePIP: A ROMANCE OF YOUTH.\u003cbr\u003eGETTING TOGETHER.\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND.\u003cbr\u003eSCALLY: THE STORY OF A PERFECT GENTLEMAN. With Frontispiece.\u003cbr\u003eA KNIGHT ON WHEELS.\u003cbr\u003eHAPPY-GO-LUCKY. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock.\u003cbr\u003eA SAFETY MATCH. With frontispiece.\u003cbr\u003eA MAN'S MAN. With frontispiece.\u003cbr\u003eTHE RIGHT STUFF. With frontispiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTO MY WIFE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePUBLISHERS' NOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Junior Sub,\" who writes the following account of the experiences\u003cbr\u003eof some of the first hundred thousand of Kitchener's army, is, as the\u003cbr\u003etitle-page of the volume now reveals, Ian Hay Beith, author of those\u003cbr\u003edeservedly popular novels, _The Right Stuff, A Man's Man, A Safety\u003cbr\u003eMatch_, and _Happy-Go-Lucky_.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaptain Beith, who was born in 1876 and therefore narrowly came within\u003cbr\u003ethe age limit for military service, enlisted at the first outbreak of\u003cbr\u003ehostilities in the summer of 1914, and was made a sub-lieutenant in\u003cbr\u003ethe Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training throughout the\u003cbr\u003efall and winter at Aldershot, he accompanied his regiment to the front\u003cbr\u003ein April, and, as his narrative discloses, immediately saw some\u003cbr\u003every active service and rapidly rose to the rank of captain. In the\u003cbr\u003eoffensive of September, Captain Beith's division was badly cut up and\u003cbr\u003eseriously reduced in numbers. He has lately been transferred to\u003cbr\u003ea machine-gun division, and \"for some mysterious reason\"--as he\u003cbr\u003echaracteristically puts it in a letter to his publishers,--has been\u003cbr\u003erecommended for the military cross.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of _The First Hundred Thousand_ was originally contributed\u003cbr\u003ein the form of an anonymous narrative to _Blackwood's Magazine_.\u003cbr\u003eWriting to his publishers, last May, Captain Beith describes the\u003cbr\u003ecircumstances under which it was written:--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I write this from the stone floor of an outhouse, where the pig meal\u003cbr\u003eis first accumulated and then boiled up at a particularly smelly\u003cbr\u003eFrench farm, which is saying a good deal. It is a most interesting\u003cbr\u003elife, and if I come through the present unpleasantness I shall\u003cbr\u003ehave enough copy to last me twenty years. Meanwhile, I am using\u003cbr\u003e_Blackwood's Magazine_ as a safety-valve under a pseudonym.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is these \"safety-valve\" papers that are here offered to the\u003cbr\u003eAmerican public in their completeness,--a picture of the great\u003cbr\u003estruggle uniquely rich in graphic human detail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 PARK STREET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK ONE\u003cbr\u003eBLANK CARTRIDGES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I. AB OVO\u003cbr\u003e   II. THE DAILY GRIND\u003cbr\u003e  III. GROWING PAINS\u003cbr\u003e   IV. THE CONVERSION OF PRIVATE M'SLATTERY\u003cbr\u003e    V. \"CRIME\"\u003cbr\u003e   VI. THE LAWS OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS\u003cbr\u003e  VII. SHOOTING STRAIGHT\u003cbr\u003e VIII. BILLETS\u003cbr\u003e   IX. MID-CHANNEL\u003cbr\u003e    X. DEEDS OF DARKNESS\u003cbr\u003e   XI. OLYMPUS\u003cbr\u003e  XII. ... AND SOME FELL BY THE WAYSIDE\u003cbr\u003e XIII. CONCERT PITCH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK TWO\u003cbr\u003eLIVE ROUNDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV. THE BACK OF THE FRONT\u003cbr\u003e   XV. IN THE TRENCHES--AN OFF-DAY\u003cbr\u003e  XVI. \"DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSS-ROADS TO-NIGHT\"\u003cbr\u003e XVII. THE NEW WARFARE\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. THE FRONT OF THE FRONT\u003cbr\u003e  XIX. THE TRIVIAL ROUND\u003cbr\u003e   XX. THE GATHERING OF THE EAGLES\u003cbr\u003e  XXI. THE BATTLE OF THE SLAG-HEAPS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"K(1)\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _We do not deem ourselves A 1,\u003cbr\u003e  We have no past: we cut no dash:\u003cbr\u003e  Nor hope, when launched against the Hun,\u003cbr\u003e  To raise a more than moderate splash.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  But yesterday, we said farewell\u003cbr\u003e  To plough; to pit; to dock; to mill.\u003cbr\u003e  For glory_? Drop it! _Why? Oh, well--\u003cbr\u003e  To have a slap at Kaiser Bill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  And now to-day has come along.\u003cbr\u003e  With rifle, haversack, and pack,\u003cbr\u003e  We're off, a hundred thousand strong.\u003cbr\u003e  And--some of us will not come back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  But all we ask, if that befall,\u003cbr\u003e  Is this. Within your hearts be writ\u003cbr\u003e  This single-line memorial_:--\u003cbr\u003e  He did his duty--and his bit!","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169764589808,"sku":"2940013417984","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013417984_p0.jpg?v=1763580677","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013417984","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}