Excerpt from The Command Is Forward: Tales of the a Battlefields as They Appeared It is doubtful if those Chaumont powers who authorized the publication realized for one mo ment how the new weekly would thrive or how clearly it would become the voice of the A. E. F. - the voice of the men in the ranks whose faith ful friend it was from first to last. It is doubtful if, even after it was all over, the more tradition-bound among the great folk at G. H. Q. Quite understood by just what process of truth this army weekly had gradually succeeded in winning and maintaining its independence from interference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.