Words by an Eyewitness: The Struggle in NatalW. Blackwood, 1901 - 343 sider |
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... eyes , this is an experience so utterly unnatural and new , that , strange to say , it defeats its own ends , and usually leaves unmoved those who undergo it for the first time . The writer's first taste of fire was an unexpected ...
... eyes , this is an experience so utterly unnatural and new , that , strange to say , it defeats its own ends , and usually leaves unmoved those who undergo it for the first time . The writer's first taste of fire was an unexpected ...
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... eyes opened very wide indeed at the spectacle of human beings literally unstoppable by flying lead . It was Sir John Moore who said that British soldiers were " no good in a retirement . " Well , the campaign in South Africa has slain ...
... eyes opened very wide indeed at the spectacle of human beings literally unstoppable by flying lead . It was Sir John Moore who said that British soldiers were " no good in a retirement . " Well , the campaign in South Africa has slain ...
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... eyes of a hundred Govern- ment inspectors glued upon it ! So there arose a bickering . Tom , down below , must obviously have taken more than his share , else how came it that Mick above ( the kopje was shaped like а mansard roof ) had ...
... eyes of a hundred Govern- ment inspectors glued upon it ! So there arose a bickering . Tom , down below , must obviously have taken more than his share , else how came it that Mick above ( the kopje was shaped like а mansard roof ) had ...
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... eyes , to despair when it has vanished . Any one of this psychological trio would be fatal in a private soldier , so that Providence , having seen fit to decree that the British private was to be the most perfect ex- ponent of his ...
... eyes , to despair when it has vanished . Any one of this psychological trio would be fatal in a private soldier , so that Providence , having seen fit to decree that the British private was to be the most perfect ex- ponent of his ...
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... eyes , ears , and brains - had gone with them . But having said this , I have said all . The list of Tommy's deficiencies is as nothing com- pared to that of his military virtues . He is brave , enduring , disciplined , cheerful under ...
... eyes , ears , and brains - had gone with them . But having said this , I have said all . The list of Tommy's deficiencies is as nothing com- pared to that of his military virtues . He is brave , enduring , disciplined , cheerful under ...
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