Blood and Iron
Posted on Tuesday 17th April 2012Extracted from Blood and Iron.

I’m not particularly afraid of death, but I dislike the thought of dying because I enjoy life so much, and I want to enjoy it such a lot more. This dug-out life gives one plenty of time to think, I tell you, and the danger is, one gets down to a minor key and stays there... Anyway I feel that I’ve expiated every crime I’ve ever committed. I fancy that when we warriors fetch up at the Final Enquiry they’ll say, “Where did you perform?” We shall reply. “Ypres salient.”




Further Reading
Blood and Iron
(Hardback - 236 pages)
ISBN: 9781848842977
by Hugh Montagu Butterworth
Only £19.99
Until now Hugh Butterworth was just one of the millions of lost soldiers of the Great War, and the extraordinary letters he sent home from the Western Front have been largely forgotten. But, after more than ninety years of obscurity, these letters, which describe his experience of war in poignant detail, have been rediscovered, and they are published here in full. They are a moving, intensely personal and beautifully written record by an articulate and observant man who witnessed at first hand one of the darkest episodes in European history.
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