Excerpt from The Undying Story: The Work of the British Expeditionary Force on the Continent From Mons, August 23rd, 1914, to Ypres, Nov, 15th 1914
Until a few weeks before I started my periodical - "T.P."s Journal of Great Deeds of the Great War" - Mr. Douglas Newton was unknown to me personally; but I had made his spiritual acquaintance many months before. For I had read a story of his, called "War"; and in common with its many other readers, I was immensely struck with the vividness, the inspiration even, with which Mr. Douglas Newton was able to give a picture of what war really means. There was in this book a singular combination of realistic and even small details - sometimes as petty as the pettiest things of daily life - and the ever-present horror and sinister splendour of the battlefield. When I read this book I knew that I had found the man who could best write a story of battle. And so I was fortunate enough to obtain his co-operation in my new Journal. His articles in that Journal have already attained their celebrity; for there was no feature in the new paper which attracted such attention and admiration. Week after week he traced the march of our splendid soldiers through disaster and through victory, through painful retreat and through rushing advance.
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