The Germans On the Somme
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17 BAD NEWS BADLY TAKEN.
The tale of defeat, of great losses, of grave and increasing anxiety, was told clearly enough — as I have read in captured letters — by the faces of German officers who went about in these towns behind the lines with gloomy looks, and whose tempers, never of the sweetest, became irritable and unbearable so that the soldiers hated them for all this cursing and bullying. A certain battalion commander has a nervous breakdown because he has to meet his colonel in the mornin...g.
" He is dying with fear and anxiety," writes one of his comrades. Other men, not battalion com- manders, are even more afraid of their superior officers, upon whom this bad news from the Somme has an evil effect.
The bad news was spread by divisions taken out of the line and sent back to rest. The men reported that their battalions had been cut to pieces. Some of their regiments had lost three-quarters of their strength. They described the frightful effect of the British artillery — the smashed trenches, the shell- craters, the great horror.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
17 BAD NEWS BADLY TAKEN.
The tale of defeat, of great losses, of grave and increasing anxiety, was told clearly enough — as I have read in captured letters — by the faces of German officers who went about in these towns behind the lines with gloomy looks, and whose tempers, never of the sweetest, became irritable and unbearable so that the soldiers hated them for all this cursing and bullying. A certain battalion commander has a nervous breakdown because he has to meet his colonel in the mornin...g.
" He is dying with fear and anxiety," writes one of his comrades. Other men, not battalion com- manders, are even more afraid of their superior officers, upon whom this bad news from the Somme has an evil effect.
The bad news was spread by divisions taken out of the line and sent back to rest. The men reported that their battalions had been cut to pieces. Some of their regiments had lost three-quarters of their strength. They described the frightful effect of the British artillery — the smashed trenches, the shell- craters, the great horror.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Gibbs Philip to read onlineMoreLess
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