Major General John Hay Beith, (1876 - 1952), was a British novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. During the First World War, Beith served as an officer in the army in France. His good-humoured account of army life, The First Hundred Thousand, published in 1915, was a best-seller. He made a considerable career as a dramatist, writing light comedies, often in collaboration with other authors including P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. In this book: The First Hundred Thousand, All In It K(1) Carries On, A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand, The Willing Horse, A Safety Match, Happy-go-lucky, The Right Stuff, Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton, Getting Together