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Mud and Khaki: Sketches from Flanders and France is by Vernon Bartlett. The apologia says there has been so much written about the trenches, with so many war photographs and so many cinema films. The apologia warns that there is great danger that the hardships of the men in the trenches will too soon be forgotten.
The men in the wards subscribe to buy decorations of ivy and holly and mistletoe for their temporary home, and there are presents for everyone. A man who has lost both legs has drawn a pair of felt slippers. A large corner of a building has gone, Reynolds says in an awed voice 'What a hole!', and Lytton, smiling patronisingly, says it is hardly any bigger than the hole that a spent bullet makes. A junior member timidly suggests the sentence of death, to which the other two agree, and the career of No. 1234 Pte. John Williams, formerly a tramp in the west of England, is ended.
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- Author
- Vernon Bartlett
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 90
- Language
- English
- Genre
- World War I History
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