A Diary Without Dates
A Classics, Memoir, World War I book. By seven o'clock even the long corridor was as dim...
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After a wet and muddy day in London I've seen the trains pull into Charing Cross with snow piled on the roofs of the carriages, and felt a foot taller for joy that I was one of those fortunate who might step into a train and go down into a white countryside. Enid Bagnold, A Diary Without Dates // When a man dies they fetch him with a stretcher, just as he came in; only he enters with a blanket over him, and a flag covers him as he goes out. When he came in he was one of a convoy, but every man who can stand rises to his feet as he goes out. Then they play him to his funeral, to a grass mound at the back of the hospital. Enid Bagnold, A Diary Without Dates // I have said before that the long corridor is wonderful. In the winter afternoons and evenings, when the mist rolled up and down over the tiles like the smoke in a tunnel, when one walked almost in darkness and peered into the then forbidden wards, when dwarfs coming from the G block grew larger and larger until the A block turned them into beings of one's own size, the corridor always made a special impression on me. Enid Bagnold, A Diary Without Dates //
Chicago Interesting first-hand account of a hospital during WWII. Would have been easier to read if dates were included but I guess the title would then be different! Just over a hundred small pages (5x8") and worth its weight in whatever you value most. I knew her name, & didn't realize it was for "National Velvet," but this earned her place long before that, when she was 25 and a volunteer nurse for wounded soldiers back from France to the countryside near London during World War I. She wrote to...
