Medium
The first of a four-part series: Such, Such Were the Joys, Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and the remarkable Eileen Blair.
“In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last".
“During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible...they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired”.
“We are all drowning in filth…intellectual honesty and balanced judgment have simply disappeared from the face of the earth…everyone is dishonest, and utterly heartless toward people who are outside the immediate range of his own interests and sympathies”.