“old Bill Fisk became very ruminative about the Great War. He learned that Haig had lied, that he himself had fought for a world that betrayed him, that 20,000 British dead on the first day of the Somme—which he mercifully avoided because his first regiment, the Cheshires, sent him to Dublin and Cork to deal with another 1916”
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