Explore "An Unvarnished History" by Josephine Tey on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
On July the first, as all the world knows, the Somme offensive started.
The Half-and-Halfers went into action at La Boiselle through the morning mists under the lifting barrage. Kif had waited in the intolerable racket of that first colossal bombardment like a two-year-old at a starting-gate, nervous, panicky, heart-quickened. And inside him was that other quickening which had nothing to do with his clamorous heart and which made Danger for him a siren--loved and hated and sought again.