The first edition of this book is dated 1878. The edition used is dated 1878. The publisher was James Nisbet & Co Ltd, 21 Berners St., London. The number of pages is 400.

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Contents

Chapter I.
A Tale of Modern War.

Chapter II.
Is Still More Explosive than the First.

Chapter III.
An Interview with Men in Power.

Chapter IV.
A Day with the Torpedoes.

Chapter V.
Terrible Torpedo Tales, Followed By Overturned Plans.

Chapter VI.
Turk and Bulgarian—A Wrestling Match and a Dispute.

Chapter VII.
The Black Clouds Gather.

Chapter VIII.
Treats of Torpedoes, Terrible Catastrophe, Unexpected Meetings, and Such Like.

Chapter IX.
In which Lancey is Tried, Suspected, Blown Up, Captured, Half-Hanged, Delivered, and Astonished.

Chapter X.
Involves Lancey in Great Perplexities, which Culminate in a Vast Surprise.

Chapter XI.
Refers to two Important Letters, and a Secret Mission.

Chapter XII.
My First Experience of Actual War, and my Thoughts Thereon.

Chapter XIII.
Shews what Sometimes Happens in the Track of Troops.

Chapter XIV.
Tells More of what Occasionally Happens in the Track of Troops.

Chapter XV.
Simtova—New Views of War—Lancey Goes to the Front, and Sees Service, and Gets a Scare.

Chapter XVI.
Lancey gets Embroiled in Troubles, and Sees some Peculiar Service.

Chapter XVII.
In which some Desperate Enterprises are Undertaken.

Chapter XVIII.
Treats of one of our Great Ironclads.

Chapter XIX.
Describes a Stirring Fight.

Chapter XX.
Treats of War and some of its “Glorious” Results.

Chapter XXI.
More of the Results of War.

Chapter XXII.
The Fall of Plevna.

Chapter XXIII.
Woe to the “Auburn Hair!” After the Battle—Prowling Villains Punished.

Chapter XXIV.
Farewell to Sanda Pasha—A Scuffle, and an Unexpected Meeting.

Chapter XXV.
Describes a Wreck, and the Triumph of Love.

Chapter XXVI.
Some More of War’s Consequences.

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