Anyone needing help searching a trench?

[Howard]

You don't need to, most of the stuff we post here is open to the public.

Howard

[WhiteStarLine]

14 hours ago, Howard said:

encourages readers to read Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory in which Fussell expands on the ideas and language of the First World War

Just skimming this book as I fully read it many years ago.  If I quote selectively, then page 313 ties together three memories relevant to this thread.  They are bound under the theme of the demonic animal, vegetable and mineral worlds.  All from the same paragraph - text bolded by me. 

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"We find noisome beasts of prey, like lice and rats, and wild dogs."

"... the sinister forest (we will think of Trones or Mametz Wood), wilderness or waste land".

""the labyrinth or maze, the image of lost direction", like the trench system".

 

So if Peter Chasseaud didn't take this as inspiration for his book's name, he probably should have!

[NeilP]

21 hours ago, Howard said:

Put (just) Rats into Advanced Search in TrenchMapper. That gives the same map so it is "real".

Howard

Thank you so much.  I didn't know this resource existed.  So helpful.  "I think we are in rats alley where the dead men lost their bones."   Thanks again.