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We have not the faintest idea as to where or when , if at all , the enemy will move . , We only know that several thousand guns , which this time last year were firing from Allied positions upon the enemy , are now in the latter's hands ...
We have not the faintest idea as to where or when , if at all , the enemy will move . , We only know that several thousand guns , which this time last year were firing from Allied positions upon the enemy , are now in the latter's hands ...
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The latter's reply was to invade the now defenceless Empire , announcing further huge captures of booty , including more of the precious guns supplied by the Allies to the recalcitrant army . There was no attempt at resistance , which ...
The latter's reply was to invade the now defenceless Empire , announcing further huge captures of booty , including more of the precious guns supplied by the Allies to the recalcitrant army . There was no attempt at resistance , which ...
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out of the question , owing to the sustained rifle and machine - gun fire which swept across our parapets . Realizing the futility of any further efforts to go along the trench , we caught a floating box and , standing on it , raised ...
out of the question , owing to the sustained rifle and machine - gun fire which swept across our parapets . Realizing the futility of any further efforts to go along the trench , we caught a floating box and , standing on it , raised ...
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... had and all we could recover from the mud , but our position was precarious and our damaged trenches gave little protection from the enemy snipers , while it was quite impossible to build firm emplacements for our machine - guns .
... had and all we could recover from the mud , but our position was precarious and our damaged trenches gave little protection from the enemy snipers , while it was quite impossible to build firm emplacements for our machine - guns .
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Even the distant boom of a Rumanian gun could not dispel the hush of the place . Then I fell to thinking of the creatures of the steppe - of the souslik colony , and the hoopoe and shrike families ; of the dung - beetles who rolled ...
Even the distant boom of a Rumanian gun could not dispel the hush of the place . Then I fell to thinking of the creatures of the steppe - of the souslik colony , and the hoopoe and shrike families ; of the dung - beetles who rolled ...
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