“The fight ahead played across his mind but not as insistently as the rumbling of his stomach or the stone in his boot which kept disappearing only to ambush another part of his foot.”
― The Complete Western Front Series by Stuart Minor
― The Complete Western Front Series by Stuart Minor
“Has anyone seen Francis?' Harry asked. The men of the section looked at each other. He was gone, he thought, picturing his friends face days before when he had talked so calmly of his own demise. He had known he was going to die. Harry wondered what cold bravery a man needed to possess to go forwards uncomplaining knowing that it would be his end.”
― The Complete Western Front Series by Stuart Minor
― The Complete Western Front Series by Stuart Minor
“Why you think they've given us so much?' Harry asked between mouthfuls. 'They were expecting more of us,' Williams replied. The realisation struck him that over half the men who had marched out were no longer present. He realised that the cooks had provided food for the whole battalion. They were being given the portions of those who had not made it.”
― The Complete Western Front Series by Stuart Minor
― The Complete Western Front Series by Stuart Minor
“Mary burst into tears, understandable of course, after all it is not everyday that you witness a man being cooked alive.”
― The Rakeford Memoirs 1775-1776
― The Rakeford Memoirs 1775-1776
“man fell in front of him and he fell into a heap onto the soldiers writhing form. He could feel his hands wet with blood and for a split second he panicked wondering where he had been hit, then he noticed the man below him and the blood frothing darkly from his chest.”
― The Complete Western Front Series by Stuart Minor
― The Complete Western Front Series by Stuart Minor
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