topics: |  history | world-war1

 

poem on cover: 
	Noses are red,
	my feet are blue,
	there's lice in my pants,
	and the rats ate the stew.

Churchill's idea: invade turkey and attack germany from the back.
1915 may: British forces land at galipolli.
     	  defeated by the turkish.
1915 nov: churchill resigns

british soldier from gallipoli:
    to eat your food you have to wave your hand over it
    otherwise a fly came with it.  Any bit of food
    uncovered was blotted out of sight by flies in a couple
    of seconds.

--
Some soldiers believed that God had your name and number written on a
bullet... or he didn't.

So, you might as well charge that machine gun.  p.25
[versions of this idea still works for many groups.]

From foot soldiers drowning in mud to fighter pilots being
blown out of the sky, it was absolutely hideous from start to
finish. So if you like your history horrible, this is the
book for you! Find out:

   - What the “Fat King” did with food scraps and dead horses
   - How sniffing your own pee could save your life in a gas attack
   - Why a pair of old socks gave away top German secrets