No Man's Land by H.C. McNeile (1919)

The novel is a World War I story about a British officer who deserts his post and joins the French Foreign Legion to escape the horrors of war. He becomes embroiled in a conflict between the Legion and a group of Arab rebels, and must navigate the complexities of loyalty, duty, and identity.

By H.C. McNeile · First published 1919 · Genre: War, Adventure, Historical Fiction · 19 chapters

Contents

• The Way to the Land
• A Day of Peace
• The Seed
• Harvest
• Over the Top
• The First Lesson
• The Man-Trap
• An Impersonal Demonstration
• A Point of Detail
• Somewhat more Personal
• My Lady of the Jasmine
• A Project and some Side-Issues
• Morphia
• The Second Lesson, and some further Side-Issues
• Bendigo Jones -- his Tree
• The Third Lesson, and a Digression
• The Song of the Bayonet
• The Third Lesson is Learned
• "and other Fell on Good Ground"

More by H.C. McNeile

• Mufti (1915)
• Men, Women and Guns (1916)
• The Man in Ratcatcher (1922)
• An Arrow at a Venture (1922)
• The House by the Headland (1919)
• The Man who Would not Play Cards (1925)
• A Question of Personality (1922)
• The Unbroken Line (1917)
• All works by H.C. McNeile