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Patrick James Campbell
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'Once or twice I left the safety of the trench and went out alone, down the hill towards Sailly-le-Sec ... I told myself that I might obtain some useful information ... But I saw no-one and it was frightening ... I stopped going out on these adventures. I talked to my signallers instead, I read my book. I reckoned I could read a book a day at the O.P. [observation post], the kind of book I took with me, I did not feel able to read any other sort.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick James Campbell Print: Book
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'Three o'clock. I was trying to read my book, but I did not take in what I was reading. Instead of words on the page, I saw Germans, Germans coming over the crest, lines of Germans advancing down the hill, single Germans crouching behind their derelict huts.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick James Campbell Print: Book
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'"Read that," [Major Cecil] said, when he came to where I was standing. It was an envelope, an ordinary envelope, addressed in Cherry's handwriting to the O.C. A Battery. It was only orders for the day, but when I opened the envelope I saw there was only a single sheet inside, instead of the usual sheaf of papers. I opened it and read: "Hostilities will cease from 11.00 hours today, November 11th." "What does it mean?" I asked him. "The War's over," he said.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick James Campbell Print: Orders for the day.
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[Campbell is describing entering a German dugout captured after a successful offensive] 'Their home was very like one of ours, maps and pictures stuck on the walls, shelves cut out of the earth, a sheaf of orders on the hook, newspapers on the table, a half-written letter, a pair of spectacles. I looked at their books, but I could not tell whether they were like ours, whether they were novels or not.'
