A Halloween Repost: Wicked October in the Haunted Theatre of France

Robert Graves, Louis Barthas, and the abyss of 1915

Oct 31, 2023

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Originally published in October 2021, when this publication had six subscribers.

It is October 1915, and the Battle of Loos has gone hilariously wrong.

This may seem like a terrible thing to say about the consumption of 20,000 British lives for practically no gain of ground, but it is true, because the carnage is too incredible for any other reaction.

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