Oh I was delighted
WAR NORMALISED WHAT ought to have remained exceptional. In war, normality meant living alongside death. As a nurse, Edith Appleton was accustomed to that –…
WAR NORMALISED WHAT ought to have remained exceptional. In war, normality meant living alongside death. As a nurse, Edith Appleton was accustomed to that –…
WE WERE WINNING, on the Somme at least. But it was the wrong kind of winning. A limited advance – not a breakthrough. The outcome…
FUNNY OLD WORLD. Except — not funny at all. Why is it that we ‘remember’ only the first day of the Somme when in fact the campaign…
MAYBE WE WERE winning. Not, of course, winning in the sense that the end of the war was nigh. That fantasy burned brightly in many…
WERE THE GERMANS HURTING TOO? Of course they were. Allied troops — who saw the dead and dying — knew that bullets and barbed wire, gas and artillery shells…