Excerpt from The War, 1915: A History and an Explanation for Boys and Girls, a Continuation of the War, 1914 and the War, 1914-15 One writer who was at the front wrote to the papers that the artillery duel was almost like a game in some parts of the field. When the German batteries began to shell the British trenches, the order was given for the artillery to aim at certain places on the German line. It had been noticed that the Germans always stopped firing when these special places were attacked. 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.