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July 1914: Countdown to War

by Sean McMeekin

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“This is War. Things like this also happen in peace time, but not so obviously.”
― Ellen N. La Motte, The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse

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“Whenever I don't state the climatic conditions, read "raining.”
― Bruce Bairnsfather, Bullets and Billets

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“I don't know that it is possible to construct anything more atrociously hideous or uninteresting than a Base Camp. It consists, in military parlance, of nothing more than:—
Fields, grassless 1
Tents, bell 500”
― Bruce Bairnsfather, Bullets and Billets

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“It has always struck me as an amusing thing that the world, and all the human beings thereon, do get themselves into such curious and painful predicaments, and then spend the rest of the time wishing they could get out.”
― Bruce Bairnsfather

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“To give a recipe for getting a rough idea, in case you want to, I recommend the following procedure. Select a flat ten-acre ploughed field, so sited that all the surface water of the surrounding country drains into it. Now cut a zig-zag slot about four feet deep and three feet wide diagonally across, dam off as much water as you can so as to leave about a hundred yards of squelchy mud; delve out a hole at one side of the slot, then endeavour to live there for a month on bully beef and damp biscuits, whilst a friend has instructions to fire at you with his Winchester every time you put your head above the surface.”
― Bruce Bairnsfather, Bullets and Billets

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