From British officer Alexander Stewart's diary of his experience on the Western Front. Drawn from "Grandfather's Great War" and additional excerpts in Harper's.

30 June 1916: The finest thing that ever happened in the trenches was the rum ration, and never was it more needed than on the Somme. Yet some blasted, ignorant fool of a general--damned ( Read more... )

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I could really care less about the whole steroids-in-baseball thing. In retrospect, was this really that shocking?


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