Back to Blighty (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Back to Blighty Many wonders have been produced by this great war, including the bringing home into the sanctuary of the hearts and minds of practically all the men, women and children of the most peaceable nation in the world some understanding of what war - life and death war on a great scale - means. It is fully a century since the little word war has had anything approximately resembling the same personal significance for the ordinary run of people in these islands that it has to-day. 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.