A Journal of Impressions in Belgium Author:May Sinclair General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: The Macmillan company Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives History / General History / Military / World War I Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may ... more »be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: And we stayed. A Taube hovered over us and never dropped its bomb. [Saturday, 26th. When we compared notes the next morning we found that we had all gone soundly to sleep, too tired to take the Taube seriously, all except our two chauffeurs, who were downright annoyed because no bomb had entered their bedroom. Then we all went out and looked at the little hole in the roof of the fish market, and the big hole in the hotel garden, and thought of bombs as curious natural phenomena that never had and never would have any intimate connection with us. And for five weeks, ever since I knew that I must certainly go out with this expedition, I had been living in black funk; in shameful and appalling terror. Every night before I went to sleep I saw an interminable spectacle of horrors: trunks without heads, heads without trunks, limbs tangled in intestines, corpses by every roadside, murders, mutilations, my friends shot dead before my eyes. Nothing I shall ever see will be more ghastly than the things I have seen. And yet, before a possibly- to-be-bombarded Ostend this strange visualizingprocess ceases, and I see nothing and feel nothing. Absolutely nothing; until suddenly the Commandant announces that he is going into the town, by himself, to buy a hat, and I get my first experience of real terror. For the hats that the Commandant buys when he is by himself -- there are no words for them. This morning the Corps begins to realize its need of...« less