! Ask to analyse his emotions in battle a scholarly Tommy said: "'The barrage gives you a sense of security. You feel that you are quite safe so long as you do not run into it. Your . only thought is to reach your objective and your surroundings arc obliterated ; from your mind. When you kill a Ger- ; man who tries to stop you, and a second i and a third one, you just give him a mechanical look to sec if he is dead, and then pass on. The usual reverence of death is lost on ycu. If you argue at all it is in this strain: 'His lifo or m mo/ and the instinct of self-preser-vation prevails above all else. It is not callousness, it is just war."
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15948, 9 July 1917, Page 10
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