AMERICA IN FRANCE (_continued_) 166 VIII.

"FEATURES OF THE WAR" 184 IX.

TANKS AND AEROPLANES--THE STAFF WORK OF THE WAR 213 EPILOGUE 258 APPENDIX--EXPLANATION OF CHART 269 A WORD OF INTRODUCTION _May 26th._ It is a bold thing, I fear, to offer the public yet more letters based on a journey through the battle-fields of France--especially at a moment when impressions are changing so fast, when the old forms of writing about the war seem naturally out of date, or even distasteful, and the new are not yet born.

Yet perhaps in this intermediate period, the impressions of one who made two journeys over some of the same ground in 1916 and 1917, while the great struggle was at its height, and on this third occasion found herself on the Western front just two months after the Armistice, may not be unwelcome to those who, like myself, feel the need of detaching as soon as possible some general and consistent ideas from the infinite complexity, the tragic and bewildering detail, of the past four years.

The motive which sent me to France three months ago was the wish to make clear to myself if I could, and thereby to others, the true measure of the part played by the British Empire and the British Armies in the concluding campaigns of the war.