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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 |