“Hard to believe how churned up this was after the war. They’ve done a marvelous job of rebuilding their towns and villages, the Belgians. If you hadn’t seen those cemeteries—and keeping them up is down to the British—you wouldn’t know a war had been fought here.” “I think I would,” said Maisie. “Not only can you feel it, but you can see the ridges across the landscape. Those scars there, as if something had scraped the topsoil—it’s where the trenches were. You can’t just fill in that amount of earth and expect it not to show.” She kept her gaze trained on the fields as they seemed to flash
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