The Von Schlieffen Plan

Mr. Patch, who died yesterday at 111, was wounded in 1917 in the Battle of Passchendaele, which he remembered as “mud, mud, and more mud mixed together with blood.’’ “Anyone who tells you that in the trenches they weren’t scared, he’s a damned liar: You were scared all the time,’’ Mr. Patch was quoted as saying in a book, “The ... ................
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