The Bystander's Fragments From France

ISBN: 9781332253838 出版年：2016 页码：178 Bruce Bairnsfather Forgotten Books

Spirit, and the nation that sent to the front soldiers who sang and laughed must be the very decadent England they had all along denounced as unworthy of world — power. I fear the enemy will be even more infuriated when he turns over the pages of this book. In it the spirit of the British citizen soldier, who, hating war as he hated hell, flocked to the colours to have his whack at the apostles of blood and iron, is translated to cold and permanent print. Here is the great war reduced to grim and gruesome absurdity. It is not fun poked by a mere looker — on, it is the fun felt in the war by one who has been through it.