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Before Endeavours Fade

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  Posted by Amphion (U3338999) on Monday, 7th March 2011

  Just been looking through Rose E. B. Coombs, MBE, book which is a guide to the Battlefields of the First World War.
  
  I have never been to France/Belgium, although this is planned for the forthcoming year.
  
  My interest in the Great War goes back to the days of my youth, whilst at school. The simple fact that humans could exist in such 'unbelievable' conditions always fired my imagination. So much so, that for the last five years I have been craeting a chronicle of the Great War as seen from a local perspective.
  
  The one thing that stands out about Rose Coombs book is the sense that Belgium and the North of France is little more than one massive cemetery.
  I have often wondered what might have been my chances had I lived through those war years myself. Reading through this book, I sense the total insignificance of the individual. The scale of slaughter is probably better illustrated through this medium.
  
  Imagine taking a walk down a country lane, 300 miles in length. And every few yards you will come to a large cemetery, or a Demarcation stone, or a singular headstone, or an old concrete bunker: It seems never ending. The miracle is that any human being walked away from these fields unscathed.
  

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