Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the Rest, and What Can Be Done About It by Martin van Creveld

Author:Martin van Creveld [Creveld, Martin van]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf, azw3
Tags: History, Military, Strategy
Amazon: B01GQRGA2M
Published: 2016-06-05T22:00:00+00:00

Last year, before the Somme, I had not known what I was in for. I knew now; and the idea was giving me emotional satisfaction! I had often read those farewell letters from second-lieutenants to their relatives which the newspapers were so fond of printing. “Never has life brought me such an abundance of noble feelings,” and so on. I had always found it difficult to believe that these young men had really felt happy with death staring them in the face and I resented any sentimentalizing of infantry attacks. But here I was, working myself up into a similar mental condition as though going over the top were a species of religious experience.

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