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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III HUMOR IN THE TRENCHES ONE of the most surprising of the many revelations of this war has been that of the gaiety, humor, and good nature of the British soldier. All the correspondents, English and French, remark upon it. A new Tommy Atkins has arisen, whose cheery laugh and joke and music-hall song Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III HUMOR IN THE TRENCHES ONE of the most surprising of the many revelations of this war has been that of the gaiety, humor, and good nature of the British soldier. All the correspondents, English and French, remark upon it. A new Tommy Atkins has arisen, whose cheery laugh and joke and music-hall song have enlivened not only the long, weary, exhausting marches, but even the grim and unnerving hours in the trenches. Theirs was not the excitement of men going into battle, nervous and uncertain of their behavior under fire; it was rather that of light-hearted first-nighters waiting in the queue to witness some new and popular drama. " A party of the King's Own," writes Sapper Mugridge of the Royal Engineers, " went into their first action shouting ' Early doors this way! Early doors, ninepence!' " " The Kaiser's crush " is the description given by a sergeant of the Coldstream Guards as hewatched a dense mass of Germans emerging to the attack from a wood, and prepared to meet them with the bayonet. When first the fierce German searchlights were turned on the British lines a little cockney in the Middlesex Regiment exclaimed to his comrade: " Lord, Bill, it's just like a play, an' us in the limelight "; and as the artillery fusillade passed over their heads, and a great ironical cheer rose from the British trenches, he added: " But it's the Kaiser wot's gettin' the bird." Many of the wounded who have been invalided home were asked whether this humor in the trenches is the real thing, oronly an affected drollery to conceal the emotions the men feel in the face of death; but they all declare that it is quite spontaneous. One old soldier, well accustomed to being under fire, freely admitted that he had never been with such a cheery and courageous lot of youngsters in his Books, Fiction~~War & Military, Tommy-Atkins-At-War-As-Told-In-His-Own-Letters~~James-Alexander-Kilpatrick, 999999999, Tommy Atkins At War As Told In His Own Letters, James Alexander Kilpatrick, 1116907674, BiblioBazaar, , , , , BiblioBazaar<

ISBN: 9781116907674

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:III HUMOR IN THE TRENCHES ONE of the most surprising of the many revelations of this war has been that of the gaiety, humor, and good nature of the British soldier. All the correspondents, English and French, remark upon it. A new Tommy Atkins has arisen, whose cheery laugh and joke and music-hall song have enlivened not only the long, weary, exhausting marches, but even the grim and unnerving hours in the trenches. Theirs was not the excitement of men going into battle, nervous and uncertain of their behavior under fire; it was rather that of light-hearted first-nighters waiting in the queue to witness some new and popular drama. " A party of the King's Own," writes Sapper Mugridge of the Royal Engineers, " went into their first action shouting ' Early doors this way! Early doors, ninepence!' " " The Kaiser's crush " is the description given by a sergeant of the Coldstream Guards as hewatched a dense mass of Germans emerging to the attack from a wood, and prepared to meet them with the bayonet. When first the fierce German searchlights were turned on the British lines a little cockney in the Middlesex Regiment exclaimed to his comrade: " Lord, Bill, it's just like a play, an' us in the limelight "; and as the artillery fusillade passed over their heads, and a great ironical cheer rose from the British trenches, he added: " But it's the Kaiser wot's gettin' the bird." Many of the wounded who have been invalided home were asked whether this humor in the trenches is the real thing, oronly an affected drollery to conceal the emotions the men feel in the face of death; but they all declare that it is quite spontaneous. One old soldier, well accustomed to being under fire, freely admitted that he had never been with such a cheery and courageous lot of youngsters in his Books Books ~~ Fiction~~ War & Military Tommy-Atkins-At-War-As-Told-In-His-Own-Letters~~James-Alexander-Kilpatrick BiblioBazaar This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.<

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Paperback, [PU: BiblioLife], This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.<

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