Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 257William Blackwood, 1945 - England |
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... seen , is the chief business of heroes , and one word commonly used for battle also means ' joy . ' But except Achilles , who has a very savage side to his nature , and his Myrmidons , often described as ' war - loving , ' nobody likes ...
... seen , is the chief business of heroes , and one word commonly used for battle also means ' joy . ' But except Achilles , who has a very savage side to his nature , and his Myrmidons , often described as ' war - loving , ' nobody likes ...
Page 165
... seen . We found ourselves on the field of the battle of Vittoria two days after it occurred , and as hundreds of corpses remained unburied it can easily be imagined how shocked and disgusted I was at the sight of them and the dead ...
... seen . We found ourselves on the field of the battle of Vittoria two days after it occurred , and as hundreds of corpses remained unburied it can easily be imagined how shocked and disgusted I was at the sight of them and the dead ...
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... seen much the same sort of thing last war . Everything seemed then to be going wrong : we retreated , we evacuated , we were crushed by U - boats , the Russians withdrew from the war , America seemed horribly slow in coming to our help ...
... seen much the same sort of thing last war . Everything seemed then to be going wrong : we retreated , we evacuated , we were crushed by U - boats , the Russians withdrew from the war , America seemed horribly slow in coming to our help ...
Contents
A COLONEL OF THE FRONTIER FORCE BY LIEUT COLONEL | 73 |
AN INFANTRY OFFICER WITH THE EIGHTH ARMYI XII | 91 |
SIC TRANSIT BY A M G | 108 |
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