"I have tried to write the exact truth as I saw and see it about both myself and other people, since a book of this ki…"

"When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exaspera…"

"Like many men who have been brought up without academic contacts, my father was at first more ready to listen to fami…"

"The same khaki-clad civilians do the same uninspiring things as complacently as ever. They are still surprised that a…"

"I am writing this in front of an open casement window overlooking the sea. The sky is cloudless, and the russet sails…"

"It is harder now the spring days are beginning to come... to keep the thought of war before one’s mind - especially h…"

"Sometimes... I’ve wished I’d never met you — that you hadn’t come to take away my impersonal attitude towards the War…"

""Would you like me any less if I was, say, minus an arm?..." My reply need not be recorded. It brought the tears so n…"

"It is still difficult to realise that the moment has actually come at last when 1 shall have no peace of mind any mor…"

"For nearly a decade I have wanted, with a growing sense of urgency, to write something which would show what the whol…"