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I am surprised that Adrian Carton de Wiart is not more well known seeing how many wars and adventures he was part of. I am really glad to have found this autobiography by him and to be able to read about an interesting personality from a time quite different from our own.
— Aug 23, 2017 12:38PM
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Bakunin
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"War is a great leveller: it shows the man as he really is, not as he would like to be, nor as he would like you to think he is. It shows him stripped with his greatness mixed with his pathetic fears and weaknesses, and though there were disappointments they were more than cancelled out by pleasant surprises of the little men, who suddenly, became larger than life." [p. 91]
— Aug 22, 2017 05:06AM
Bakunin
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"We were cut off from all our friends and our families. Mails were almost non-existent, but in some ways we were lucky, for no one tried to boost our morale with pep talks or highfalutin education, or to probe our egos with uncomfortable psychiatry" (p. 24)
Need I say more about Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart?
— Aug 21, 2017 01:10PM
Need I say more about Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart?
Bakunin
is on page 50 of 288
This is an autobiography of the 'unkillable british soldier' - he was shot through the eye, in the groin, stomache, hand, and he crash landed with a plane twice.
So far the prose has been quite pungent. "At that moment I knew, once and for all, that war was in my blood. I was determined to fight and I didn't mind who or what. I didn't know why the war had started and didn't care which side I was to fight" [p. 16]
— Aug 21, 2017 11:13AM
So far the prose has been quite pungent. "At that moment I knew, once and for all, that war was in my blood. I was determined to fight and I didn't mind who or what. I didn't know why the war had started and didn't care which side I was to fight" [p. 16]
