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The nerves of the enemy

30 September 2017

9:00 AM

30 September 2017

9:00 AM

From ‘The progress in Flanders’,
29 September 1917:
The fighting has reached a degree of intensity never before known. There is no leisure or rest for any one. The instruments of destruction which fly through the air by day and night are more numerous and more various than before… The strain to which the enemy, even more than ourselves, is subjected is terrific beyond words.

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