Actions and Reactions in Russia

There is a sameness about this war. Battles are very much alike. A rtillery, certainly :machine guns, rifles, hand-grenades and bayonets. Shells of varied calibre :shrapnel bursting high and low ;bullets and bombs; occasionally a mine. A eroplanes, too of course of different design ;but when they fly so high up in the sky, they all look quite alike. The weather changes, and the seasons change, but the war remains the same. There is a sameness about the trenches. Our Russian lines are all alike. Pine wooden trench supports ;sandbags and works of earth ;narrow loop-holes for rifles and broader ones for mitrailleuses; and outside, westwards, zigzagging obstacles of wire. We see the enemys domain. It looks to us just as our lines must look to him. We see his sand-bags and his heaped-up earth. We see the slits through which his bullets come. Although the enemy we do not see, we know his eyes are tiirned on us, while ours are fixed on where he is. There is a sameness in the land behind the Russian lines. The shell-pocked plains; the broken woods; the derevni where soldiers live. These villages are grey and built upon a single plan. Each izba has its roof of thatch, its walls of rough tree trunks.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at