500 of the Best Cockney War Stories. Various

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664635488

Table of Contents

       SIR IAN HAMILTON'S STORY

       1. ACTION

       The Outside Fare

       "Barbed Wire's Dangerous!"

       Tale of an Egg

       "No Earfkwikes"

       A "Bow Bells" Heroine

       Samson, but Shorn

       "What's Bred in the Bone——!"

       A Very Human Concertina

       A One-Man Army

       "Nah, Mate! Soufend!"

       "I Got 'Ole Nelson Beat!"

       Two Kinds of Fatalist

       Double up, Beauty Chorus!

       The Theatre of War

       "It's the Skivvy's 'Arf Day Orf"

       Cricket on the Somme

       M'Lord, of Hoxton

       The Tall Man's War

       Germany Didn't Know This

       Better than the Crystal Palace

       A Short Week-end

       Simultaneous Chess

       Fire-step Philosophy

       "Teddie" Gets the Last Word

       "Nobbler's" Grouse

       Dust in 'Indenburg's Sauerkraut!

       A Valiant Son of London

       A Hint to the Brigadier

       "Salvage? Yus, Me!"

       Almost Self-inflicted

       Nobby's 1,000 to 1 Chance

       That Derby Scheme

       "Shoo-Shoo-Shooting"

       Ancient Britons?—No!

       Desert Island—Near Bullecourt

       "Tiger's" Little Trick

       Raffle Draw To-night!

       Exit the General's Dessert

       "Try on this Coat, Sir"

       On the Kaiser's Birthday

       "Chuck us yer Name Plate!"

       To Hold His Hand

       The New Landlord

       "Out of Bounds" in the Line

       Epic of the Whistling Nine

       Tale of a Cook and a "Crump"

       "—— Returns the Penny"

       "In Time for the Workman's?"

       A Lovely Record

       Logic in No Man's Land

       Fousands ... and Millions

       Lost: