Great Britain at War

Great Britain at War is by Jeffery Farnol, who gathers articles under chapter headings such as Cartridges, Rifles and Lewis Guns, Clydebank, Ships in Making and The Battle Cruisers. Further chapters are headed A Hospital, The Guns, A Training Camp, Arras, The Battlefields, Flying Men, Ypres and What Britain Has Done.

The author says that his armies are locked in desperate battle and his guns are thundering on many fronts, while from mile upon mile of workshops and factories and shipyards rises the answering roar of machinery. The writer describes workshops filled with bright-eyed English girls, Irish colleens and Scots lassies by the ten thousand, and watching a cartridge grow from a disc of metal. A Major in a dugout says gunners are made in six short months now, offers a cup of tea in his dugout, and tells the writer not to forget to take a peep at the mine craters. Another passage counts seven million sons under arms, nearly five million of whom were volunteers.