Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A War Correspondent on His Work
Since early in 1916 the present five have been continuously together, except for intervals of leave or reliefs on account of illness. No fighting soldier has seen so many aspects of the War as we. Not one of us would for a moment match his experience against that of any man who has spent one week in the front-line trenches. All our service does not compare with the honour of any Private who has once helped to repel a midnight raid or has gone over' with his comrades in the dawn. But we are getting a little touchy at the comments of writers at home, probably _much our juniors, on the subject of our youth and our inexperience of war.
Two immense advantages we have as critics and as judges of the situation. First, we are continually in contact with men and officers of all ranks and every branch of the Service. Second, among ourselves, our knowledge and experience are always pooled.
The days when War Correspondents raced fifty miles from the scene of some savage skirmish to a telegraph office are gone. The Front here is so vast that no single man can possibly be in touch with all of it. We soon decided for ourselves that, so far as the imparting of facts was concerned, we must collaborate and work in harmony, each exchanging daily his news with all the others.
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