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The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
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3. British soldiers are splendid.
4. African farmers who wanted to rise but didn’t dare are skunks.
5. South Africa is a desert.
6. The war was necessary to maintain prestige in other quarters.
People may blame Generals and Heads of Departments however much they choose, but as far as mortal men could work, everyone in the Army from highest to lowest has worked splendidly and successfully. Against a European force in England of half the size again, the S.A. Field Force would have proved the most splendid and unconquerable army ever beheld.
He ended the letter by telling Doolis, ‘I do not suppose I shall see any fighting, and have hopes of returning in October, if all goes on as it is doing now.’21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Unfortunately for Mark, just as he was beginning to feel that he was actually doing something useful in the war effort, he was sent back to Port Elizabeth, where he found himself guarding the harbour, ‘a most unpleasant duty which recurs every four days,’ he wrote to Edith. ‘It lasts 24 hours in which time one does not go to bed. I am surrounded with putrefying meat and dead horses.’22 (#litres_trial_promo)
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