Frederic Manning News Today

Volunteers started to come into play also. By 1916 during the battle of the somme, the army was mostly volunteers with remnants of the professional and territorial divisions. This is the general, the chief architect of the battle of the somme. Here he is Walking Around his chateau. Every morning he would take a four minute walk around the chateau, precisely timed. Interesting man vilified by a lot of historians and then a rehabilitated by a lot of historians. My opinion of him is rather low but ...

How I got irony in the infantry

Despite structural flaws, Men at War, edited by Ernest Hemingway, offers fascinating insights into Hemingway's views on fiction-writing, war reporting, and war itself.