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'A German NCO with an Iron Cross started singing. When he had finished, Hulse suggested his own men sing ‘Bonnie Scotland’. The Germans responded and the British came back with ‘Good King Wenceslas’. Everyone then joined in ‘Auld Lang Syne’. “It was absolutely astounding and, if I had seen it on a cinematograph film, I should have sworn that it was faked,” wrote Hulse later.'

This was truly one of the most bizarre situations in the history of armed conflict. It was as if the universe was trying to communicate some futile and fleeting message.

This book is one of the best examples I can find of why science is really only so useful. It has trends that come and go, same as music or fashion. It can be bought, like any politician or preacher.

'The Forest was beautiful. It was shaggy and mysterious, and concealed deep burrows and the strange denizens of those burrows. It never knew the sun and never let the wind through, it was inhabited by the dogheads and the whistlers, giant blackcap mushrooms and bloodsucking flowers grew in it.'