Vulgar words in The Note-Book of an Attaché - Seven Months in the War Zone (Page 1)
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The bombardment began on a Wednesday night and three of the forts were reduced to scrap in two days.
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One of them prefaced his remarks on the retreat from Charleroi by saying, "The truth of the matter is, we got damn well licked," and went on to say that his men shot and shot and shot until they became sick of killing, and that the Germans kept coming, always coming, their ranks riddled and smashed by bullets and shells.
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The soldier had a lion's head, the officer an ass's head, and the general had no head at all.