"A wartime book this complete edition is produced in full compliance with the government's regulation for conserving paper and other essential materials"-- Reverse of the title page.

I join the army -- Called to foreign duty -- We join the 48th surgical hospital -- Scotland and England -- Invasion convoy -- Nightingales in North Africa -- Christmas in Arzeu -- In the Tebessa hills -- Battle sector -- We withdraw -- Montesque and Bou Chebta -- No time to cry -- We capture a sewing machine -- Tabarca -- Lost in the German lines -- Hill 609 -- Bizerte and Tunis -- Sicilian invasion -- Casualties at Cefalu -- Evacuation hospital -- The white ship with the red cross -- I come home -- The new nightingale.