August 19th 1915
Dear Family,
I am currently situated in a trench at Gallipoli, its only 3pm but it feels like I have been awake for months right now, I constantly hear bombs going off machine gun fire, followed by men screaming, it is a dreadful thought I no.
I should never have made such a mistake of enlisting into the army, I still remember when I found about this war, my friends came running to me saying "I just heard there has been a war on, and we get to go to other countries for free!" and I was thinking to myself how great it would have been being a hero going to different countries, such a fool I was. Dam that German horde starting a war like this, I wish they weren't so greedy for money and power. I feel as though I am in a horror movie, except they changed the axe wielding psycho with several gun wielding Turkish psychos.
Ernest Hemingway in Milan, 1918
Thinking
American Author Ernest Hemingway with then-wife El...The training in Cairo did nothing, they must have thought it would prepare us for victory all it did was told us what we all knew, to point, shoot and run like hell.
I thank god though that any of you aren't here, with such a smell of decaying bodies, hungry rats and moldy food because then I would truly be in hell. The only thing I have protecting me from those Turks is a clip full of bullets a rusty .59 rifle a thin helmet and a hell of a lot of courage.
It is absolutely horrific up here with people constantly dieing, as soon as I got here I was terrified because 5 minutes after we got out of the boat we heard machine gun fire from the mountains above we all ran in...