Realities Of War Flashcards
Sergeant Major Money - Robert Graves
“We couldn’t blame the officers”
“One poor sod shot himself”
Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
“Drunk with fatigue”
“Gas! Gas”
Battlefield - Richard Aldington
“Wind is piercing chill”
“Ci-gît, ci-gît”
Absolution - Siegfried Sassoon
“War is our scourge”
“Anguish”, “scourge”, “wounds”
The General - Siegfried Sassoon
“Most of em dead”
“His plan of attack”
Rain - Edward Thomas
“Blessed are the dead”
“Noting but the wild rain”
Men Who March Away - Thomas Hardy
“men who march away”
“Is it a purblind prank?”
In Flanders Field - John McCrae
“we are the dead”
“Between the crosses, row on row”
Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen
“Guns”, “rifles”, “shells”
“Hands of boys”
Regeneration - Pat Barker
“A hundred years from now they’ll still be ploughing up skulls”
“Agony’s lying in a shell-hole with your legs shot off”
Not About Heroes - Stephen Macdonald
“Until their putrefied bodies explode in our faces”
“In the foulest and bloodiest of wars”
Blackadder - Richard Curtis
“We ran out of coffee thirteen months ago”
“Or ice cold in No Mans Land in 15 seconds”
