General editor's foreword and preface to the series /Andrew G. Fusco --Pages floating upon the East Wind: Co-editors' introducion /Robert Katz and Andrew Solberg --Manuscript facsimile of "His Last Bow" with transcription and annotationsby Phillip Bergem --Setting the stage for a bow: Talk of war, automobiles and more /Phillip Bergem --Making "His Last Bow": its history and manuscript /Randall Stock -- Manuscript facsimile of "Ypres September 1915" with transcription and annotations /by Phillip Bergem --Conan Doyle's poetic view of Ypres /Michael H. Kean --European complications of the utmost moment /Marina Stajić --August 1914: Mycroft Holmes and pre-war European diplomacy /Ross Davies --Holmes and politicians 1912: "His last bow" /Hartley R. Nathan --Tinged with foresight? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as prophet of the First World War /Catherine Cooke --Sherlock Holmes in the trenches /Glen Miranker --From Chicago to Buffalo to Germany: Altamont and Irish Secret Societies /Burt Wolder --Your old service: Watson after "His Last Bow" /Peter Calamai --Germany and Germans in the Canon /Maria Fleischhack --The sporting spy's Last Bow /E.J. Watner --Propaganda: The secret war service of Arthur Conan Doyle /Clifford S. Goldfarb --"Playing the Game" and the truth about "his Last Bow" /Michael A. Meer --Aftermath: Holmes and Watson after November 11 /Nicholas Utechin --What! Tokay! /Patricia Guy --"So the last will be first, and the first will be last" /Rebecca Romney --Holmes and Watson in the Great War: The decorated duo of Rathbone and Bruce /Greg Ruby --"Some Distant but Glorious End": further resources and research /Tamar Zeffren --Appendix: original illustrations for "His Last Bow" by Frederick Door Steele -- The usual suspects: contributors.