Fields and Battlefields (Classic Reprint)
| Preis: | 16.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Bagenal, Hope) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Fields and Battlefields There was a time when Steenwerk set herself to rival in gaiety her sister on the hill. It was during the tenancy of the market place by some Motor Transport men of great originality and enterprise. There was no regular brigade band on Sundays, but these talented ones could render the opening bars of The Rosary on the horns of their motor-lorries. They set up a cinema of their own and worked it themselves, they assembled an orchestra of one man and two or three instruments, but the instruments did not long survive. Concerts were given at which R.A.M.C. men sang, and if marriages were not made in Steenwerk that was nobody´s fault. For in our own phrase there were "beaucoup Mamselles" in Steenwerk. I recall as sweet a vision as any of its kind. Once on entering the town I passed a young person wearing a red dress and apron. She carried water pails slung over her firm shoulders and walked in spite of them with the grace of perfect simplicity, or of perfect art. She did not raise her eyes. Her face was pale - a maid pale in the spring. Doubtless she thought of no khaki soldier but of one in cornflower blue, with perhaps a coffee-mill of hers in his pack, a red sash round his waist, and eyes more eloquent than ours. Yet Steenwerk, little city of the plain, thou art ever remembered not for youth, or pleasure, but because from thy precincts we first looked back to England from a land at war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
