Excerpt from Trusty and Well Beloved: The Little Record of Arthur Oscar Hornung, Second Lieutenant 3rd (Attached 2nd) Essex RegimentThe country on each side of the r1ver 1s lovely - great woods and ravines with large, old Louis XV Chateaux perched high among them, and then at the foot of the hills pretty little villages, all looking so much cleaner than our English ones Then again in the villages there are all the inhabitants standing outside their doors waving handkerchiefs and even firing off guns to welcome 11's as we speed up-river at well over 20 knots. One sporting kid in a village a little way back sang out Are we downhearted and of course she got back a roar from us No I have never seen country looking so ripping as this - at such a time of year too.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.