The Old Front Line
- First published
- 1917
- Reading level
- Plain English
- Price
- Free
About the book
"The Old Front Line" by John Masefield is a military history book published in 1917. Written by an English poet, it describes the British Army's battlefield front-line from the first day of the Somme, July 1, 1916. Originally commissioned to write a full account of the Battle of the Somme, Masefield was denied access to official documents. Instead, he produced this lyrical eyewitness description of the terrain, creating perhaps the First World War's first battlefield guide.
- Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #20616. The Old Front Line on Wikipedia.
