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Title: The Red Horizon

Author: Patrick MacGill

Release Date: November 4, 2006 [EBook #19710]

Language: English

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THE RED HORIZON

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

CHILDREN OF THE DEAD END.
The Autobiography of a Navvy.
Ten Thousand Printed within Ten
Days of Publication.

THE RAT-PIT. _Third Edition._

THE AMATEUR ARMY.
The Experiences of a Soldier in the Making.

THE GREAT PUSH.

THE RED HORIZON

BY

PATRICK MACGILL

WITH A FOREWORD BY
VISCOUNT ESHER G. C. B.

TORONTO
McCLELLAND, GOODCHILD &
STEWART, LIMITED

LONDON
HERBERT JENKINS, LIMITED
1916

THE ANCHOR PRESS, LTD., TIPTREE, ESSEX.

TO
THE LONDON IRISH
TO THE SPIRIT OF THOSE WHO FIGHT AND TO
THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

FOREWORD

_To_ PATRICK MACGILL,
Rifleman No. 3008, London Irish.

DEAR PATRICK MACGILL,

There is open in France a wonderful exh