His war diaries are brilliant.
"Here lies the body of Havelock the dog. Shot in the head, dropped like a log."
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"Why do they keep moving us around so much?"
"They're trying to make us look a lot"
"Yeah, a lot of cunts"
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TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Tue 24 Apr 2018, 15:33,
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^ This
Funny but also sad at tines. A sense that the intense experience of short term love and possible short term life would never be experienced again.
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Definitely. And that the humour was all about stopping them succumbing to the madness of war.
The bit where he got shell shock was a tough read.
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The prologue to the Rommel book still makes me chuckle
I have described nothing but what I saw myself, or learned from others of whom I made the most careful and particular enquiry.
Thucydides. Peloponnesian War.
I've just jazzed mine up a little.
Milligan. World War II.
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