Lanterna Rally

Author: M. A. B. Johnston

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781332615186

Excerpt from Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom Four-fifty Miles to Freedom When the order's "Up and at 'em" and the blood beats through your head, When the dead are falling round you by the score, And when all you think and all you feel and all you see is red, Then thank God you're not a prisoner of war. When you're fighting in the desert where the heat waves never stop, And you've never known what thirst has been before, Though you'd sell your soul for water and you know there's not a drop, Then thank God you're not a prisoner of war. We've been handed down a birthright which the bards of ages sing, From the days of Agincourt and long before, That a Briton owns no master save his God and save his king, But you find a third when prisoner of war. It's a feeling right inside you, and it never lets you go, That you haven't been allowed to pay your score: You may still be hale and hearty, but you re missing all the show. What offers for the job? Prisoner of war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.