Title:  Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front

Author:  Keith Henderson

Illustrator:  Keith Henderson

Release Date:  September 2, 2005 [EBook #16626]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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LETTERS TO HELEN

[Illustration:  Crucifix corner Between Montauban & high wood One of the hands was shot away, and the figure hangs there suspended from the other.]

LETTERS TO HELEN

Impressions of an Artist
on the Western Front

By Keith Henderson

Illustrated

London
Chatto & Windus

MCMXVII

PREFACE

These letters were never intended for publication.

But when the pictures were brought back from France it was suggested that they should be reproduced, and a book evolved.

Then a certain person (who shall be nameless) conceived the dastardly idea of exposing private correspondence to the public eye.  He proved wilful in the matter, and this book came into the world.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Crucifix corner Frontispiece
A conference in the chateau To face page 6
BAILLEUL 10
Le Mont DES cats 18
FRICOURT cemetery 32
trenches between FRICOURT and la BOISELLE 48
gird trench 54
A house in Geudecourt 60
A wounded tank 66
explosion of an ammunition dump 78
the Butte de WARLENCOURT 92
Peronne 106

LETTERS TO HELEN

June 6, 1916.

Well, here we are in the slowest train that ever limped, and I’ve been to sleep for seven hours.  The first good sleep since leaving England.  And now, as we’ve got twenty-eight hours to go still, there’s time to write a letter.  The last three days’ postcards have been scrappy and unintelligible, but we departed without warning and with the most Sherlock Holmes secrecy.  Not a word about which ports we were sailing from or to.