Excerpt from The Great War as I Saw It The blood which thou didst give us, is the blood we spill for thee. Little did I think when I first saw him that he could possibly, at his time of life, bear the rough and tumble of the heaviest fighting in history, and come through with buoyancy of spirit younger men envied and older men recognized as the sign and fruit of self forgetfulness and the inspiration and cheering of others. Always in the thick of the fighting, bearing almost a charmed life, ignoring any suggestion that he should be posted to a softer job further back, he held on to the very end. The last time I saw him was in a hospital at Etaples badly wounded, yet cheery as ever - having done his duty nobly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.