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An Englishman recounts his service, and his turn to pacifism, during World War I.

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Soon they had dispersed and settled down on the hillside, and were asleep in the daylight which made everything seem ordinary. None the less I had seen something that night which overawed me. It was all in the day’s work⁠—an exhausted Division returning from the Somme Offensive⁠—but for me it was as though I had watched an army of ghosts. It was as though I had seen the War as it might be envisioned by the mind of some epic poet a hundred years hence.

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