title: General Jack's Diary, 1914-18 (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
author:  J.L. Jack 
description: John Terraine is the eminent military historian and author. Four of his books on the First World War are available from Cassell.
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  Colonel Jack
  
  
  [THE PREFACE.  
    
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  # Colonel Jack
  
  
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  * THE PREFACE. 
  
  
  * Colonel Jack
  
  
    
  
      
      
       The History and Remarkable Life Of the truly 
  
  
  Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a
  
  
  Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pick-Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a
  
  
  Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia, Came back a Merchant; was Five
  
  
  times married to Four Whores; went into the Wars, behav'd bravely, got
  
  
  Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regiment, came over, and fled with
  
  
  the Chevalier, is still abroad compleating a Life of Wonders, and
  
  
  resolves to dye a General. The Second Edition
  
  
  ### THE PREFACE.
  
  
  SIR,
  
  
    
  It is so customary to write Prefaces to all Books of this
  
  
  Kind to introduce them with the more Advantage into the World