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They lived in the company of corpses: In some of the most raw, shattering accounts of the Great War, soldiers, medics and those left to grieve tell visceral stories in heartbreaking letters, diaries and memoirs
2021-04-16
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  Well at least they didn’t have to live with the horror of being mis-pronoun-ed !

/sarc
Going to have to pick this up

Pronouns: Don’t care, been called worse, sometimes accurately
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-04-16 14:22  

#2  One of the most haunting parts of The Lord of the Rings is the Dead Marshes -- a flooded former battleground, where you can still see the corpses of the dead beneath the shallow water.

It was inspired by Tolkien's experience in the trenches of WWI.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-04-16 11:45  

#1  Or you can read:

A Rifleman Went to War
- Herbert McBride

I know, forever since a TWIB. This book is a great first hand account of training and participation, and not written by Corporal Upham.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-04-16 11:03  

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