"Whatever you hear about the war, remember it was inconceivably bloody — nobody who wasn't there can ever imagine what it was like."
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Quoted in "Blood for the ghosts: classical influences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries" (1983) by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, pg 273
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Maurice Bowra
Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra (8 April 1898 – 4 July 1971) was an English classical scholar, literary critic and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.
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