| Description | "Fighting in all its forms has now become as much my trade as beating iron is yours. The only difference is that you knock and beat iron and I do the same to anybody's head. I never knew what a bloodthirsty fellow I was until I came out here and I have learned to look upon death with the greatest indifference, I spend most of my time in a ditch which does not sound pleasant, in rainy weather the ditch is by no means a dry one and is frequently up to the knees in water. In this ditch we have to sit for 24 hours let the weather be what it may. The only consolation is that if our fingers are nipped with the cold, the Russians are as well. We are quite close to each other and any man that is foolish enough to show his head above the top of parapet is very lucky if he sits down again with it on his shoulders." |