Showing posts with label soldiered. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soldiered. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 September 2009

Thoughts of home



It’s a strange thing, to come through hundreds of miles of wilderness, from a foreign land and moving in the wrong direction, and suddenly find yourself sniffing the air and thinking, ‘home’. If you’re British, and have soldiered in India, you’ll understand what I mean.



Flashman at the Charge, p.214, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.




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Friday, 2 February 2007

Laying down the law

I have soldiered in too many countries and known too many peoples to fall into the folly of laying down the law about any of them.



Flashman, p. 51, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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