Excerpt from The Boy Allies With Haig in Flanders: Or the Fighting Canadians of Vimy Ridge<br><br>The rain fell in torrents over the great battle field, as Hal Paine and Chester Crawford, taking advantage of the inky blackness of the night, crept from the shelter of the American trenches that faced the enemy across N o Man's Land.<br><br>In the trenches them'selves all was silence. To a spectator it ~would have seemed that the occupants were either dead or asleep; yet such was not the case.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.