http://www.songsofwar.com Military Stories, Poems, News and Information... Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:40:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have a French book for travellers in France, so with it I went to a farm and showed them that I wanted eggs. So they said, “Ah, wee.” The man got a whip and bunched all the chickens together, and then told me to pick one out. I tried ... http://www.songsofwar.com/627/a-happy-ending/ Everybody is wild about the Indians, and the way they behave themselves under fire is marvellous. One day we were close to them when their infantry received its baptism of fire. When they got the order to advance you never saw men more pleased in all your life. They went ... http://www.songsofwar.com/626/the-indian-men/ We have been in the thick of the fighting all the time, and I can’t understand how it happens that I’m alive and here now, and everyone else is the same. If ever there was a Providence above watching and guarding, there is one over our regiment, and me in ... http://www.songsofwar.com/625/music-and-lunch/ The great match for the European Cup is still being played out, and I daresay there’s a record gate, though you can’t see the spectators from the field. That’s one of the rules of the game when this match is on. Our team is about as fit as you can ... http://www.songsofwar.com/624/the-franco-british-team/ What most of us feel here is that Germans are staking everything on fighting in France or Belgium, and when they are beaten, as they will be sooner or later, they will howl for peace to save their own country from the horrors of invasion. That’s an idea we have ... http://www.songsofwar.com/623/rubbing-it-in/ Fighting’s kindergarten work compared with lying in your damp clothes in the washed-out-trenches night and day, with maybe not a chance of getting any more warmth than you can get from a wax match. That you may have in the day-time, but you’ll get into trouble if you fit it ... http://www.songsofwar.com/622/putting-up-with-it/ Some plucky things have been done by chauffeurs and motorlorry drivers. It would make some of your London drivers stare to see what they will risk. One of them said this war will cause a revolution in motor driving, as, till now, they never had a chance of seeing what ... http://www.songsofwar.com/621/the-london-bus/ One dare not think of all the misery, sadness, and sorrow that greets one where the fighting has been; lifelong efforts and struggling dashed to the ground in the space of an hour or so. You quiet English folks, with your beautiful homes and orderly lives, cannot realize what a ... http://www.songsofwar.com/620/the-pathos-of-it/ There’s not the least doubt that we have the whip hand of the Germans now, and it’s only a question of time until we knock them under altogether. Their officers simply won’t hear of letting them surrender, and so long as there’s an officer about they’ll stand like sheep and ... http://www.songsofwar.com/619/the-whip-hand/ Our men are easily the best troops out here, and the Germans are the “rottenest” fighters it is possible to imagine. They fight like devils when you can’t get at them, but when captured (and we have got them wholesale) they try to give one the impression they don’t want ... http://www.songsofwar.com/618/easily-the-best/