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Bayonet charge - “suddenly ..

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“suddenly he awoke and was running …”

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Bayonet charge - “then the shot-slashed …

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“then the shot-slashed furrows threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame”

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Bayonet charge - “the patriotic …

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“the patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye”

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Bayonet charge - “In what cold …

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“In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations, Was he the hand pointing that second?”

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Bayonet charge - “his terror’s …

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“his terror’s touchy dynamite”

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Bayonet charge - “King, honour …

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“King, honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm”

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Remains - “I swear I see ….

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“I swear I see every round as it rips through his life”

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Remains - “he’s here in my head …

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“he’s here in my head when I close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines”

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Remains - “his bloody life …

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“his bloody life in my bloody hands”

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Exposure - “our brains ache, ….

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“our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us “

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Exposure - “ we hear the mad …

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” we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire like the twitching agonies of men “

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Exposure - “pale flakes …

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“pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”

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Exposure - “all their eyes …

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“all their eyes are ice but nothing happens”

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Exposure - “tonight, this frost …

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“tonight, this frost will fasten on this mud and us”

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COLB - “all in the …

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“all in the valley of Death rode the six hundred”

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COLB - “theirs not to …

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“theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do or die”

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COLB - “cannon to right ….

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“cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon behind them”

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Kamikaze - “ a shaven head …

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“a shaven head full of powerful incantations”

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Kamikaze - “little fishing …

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“little fishing boats strung out like bunting”

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Kamikaze - “till gradually …

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“till gradually we too learned to be silent”

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Kamikaze - “he must have …

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“he must have wondered which had been the better way to die”

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Kamikaze - “fishes flashing …

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“fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun”

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The Prelude - “a little boat ..

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“a little boat tied to a willow tree” “an elfin pinnace”

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The Prelude - “a huge …

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“a huge peak, black and huge” “upreared its head”

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The Prelude - “but huge and mighty …

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“but huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living men, moved slowly through my mind by day, and were a trouble to my dreams”

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Storm on the Island - “spits like …

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“spits like a tame cat turned savage”

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Storm on the Island - “We just sit …

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“We just sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo”

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Storm on the Island - “strange, it ….

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“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.”

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Storm on the Island - “this wizened …

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“this wizened earth has never troubled us with hay”

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Storm on the Island - “exploding …

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“exploding comfortably”

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Kamikaze - “her father …

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“her father embarked at sunrise”

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The Prelude - “an act of …

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“an act of stealth or troubled pleasure”

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The Prelude - “went heaving …

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“went heaving through the water like a swan”

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The Prelude - “no familiar shapes …

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“no familiar shapes remained, no pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky, no colours of green fields”