BY THE SAME AUTHOR. the life of lieutenant-general SIR STANLEY MAUDE K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. Illustrations and Maps. THE DARDANELLES Maps. TIRAH 1897 Maps. The last two of these volumes belong to Constable's "Campaigns and their Lessons" Series, of which Major-General Sir C. E. Callwell is Editor. WITH A FRONTISPIECE LONDON: CONSTABLE & COMPANY LIMITED 1920...

Some passages in this Volume have already appeared in Blackwood's Magazine . The Author has to express his acknowledgements to the Editor for permission to reproduce them. Had Lord Fisher's death occurred before the proofs were finally passed for press, certain references to that great servant of the State would have been somewhat modified. CHAPTER I The Outbreak of War Unfair disparagement of the War Office during the war — Difficulties under which it suffered owing to pre-war misconduct of the