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• Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. Oxford University Press. 1975, 2000. 

1. “At the beginning of the war, a volunteer …” pg. 9.
2. ” … cylinders of chlorine gas. Most of it blew back into the British trenches …” pg. 11.
3. “As Douglas Haig used to say, two machine guns were ample for any battalion. And he thought the power of bullets to stop horses had been greatly exaggerated.” pg. 29.
4. “The whole conduct of our trench warfare seemed to be based on the concept that we, the British, were not stopping in the trenches for long …” pg. 44.
5. “Wilfred Owen writes his mother …” pg. 48.
6. “You could smell the line miles before you could see it.” pg. 49.
7. ” … the sky was one of the redeeming features of the war.” pg. 52.
8. “Shutting off the landscape, they compel us to observe the sky …” pg. 54.
9. “The postal service brought the troops their usual magazines: one simply indicated a change of address … We hear of gramophones and boxing gloves …” pg. 66 - 67.
10. ” … like a water rat into his hole.” pg. 77.
11. “The bulls’ eyes ought to have plenty of peppermint in them …” pg. 87 - 88.

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• Panichas, George A., ed., Promise of Greatness: The War of 1914 - 1918. The John Day Book Company. 1968.

1.  ” … and sent up the earth on the German trenches in gigantic fountains.” pg. 44.
2. “Legs had broken off from trunks, heads came off at a touch, and nauseous liquids oozed out of the cavities.” pg. 44 - 45.
3. “The only objects that stood out from the morass were the white German pillboxes, massive and rounded as elephants …” pg. 48.
4. ” … flamethrower … they tried to explode the fuel tanks with a grenade … Trommelfeuer, their ‘drum-roll fire’ …” pg. 63 - 64.
   
   

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