Wake up!...You must wake up!

There's something moving Under, under the ice, Moving under ice, Through water, Trying to get out of the cold water. 'It's me.' Something, someone - help them.…

'Don't you know you've kept him waiting?' 'Look who's here to see you!'

Ooh, their breath is warm And they smell like sleep, And they say they take me home. Like poppies heavy with seed They take me deeper and deeper.

To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that? That's how most men live, and don't even know it

The morale of the troops taking part was astonishingly high at the start of the offensive. They really believed victory was possible - unlike the higher comman…

Troops without ammunition or food. Effective command no longer possible. 18,000 wounded without any supplies or dressings or drugs. Further defence senseless. …