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We advanced in lopg single file, pale inithe
dark, then as.soon as the shells began to fall into the
field we started running, trying for the cover of the
ditches just short of the river.
There were me n lying on the grass huddled together,
holding communion with their fear.
They made silent
groups, still like sleeping children.
That is what they
did under a bombardment: they lay flat down with their
eyes closed, and each of them was the world.
The men with the mine detectors went ahead, rooting
out the mines and laying white tape down to guide the
infantry forward. People lost each other.
They called
out to each other quietly, between the deafening bursts,
one companion.to another, afraid of losing touch.
Some
were walking back, away from. the line, seeking their
truancy in the eleventh hour.
The field was full of
dazed men wandering this way and that, sometimes lying
do own, sometimes calling for the stretchers, sométimes
running towards the ditches on a sudden fancy.
At the southern bank of the river we waited for
the boats to take us across.
The water was dark and calm,
with high rushes on either side.
We lay down in t he
blackened shell-holes near the bank while the German gun
wailed and wailed, mocking us o A long flame issued from


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photograph.
The eyes are always judging.
They are always-
coming to a conclusion. Your name for us is not us. as we
tenderly know ourselves to be, all that'we have, all that
we can ever be, each of us alone, high and dry with his
sins and stains, a whole world more than your mere idea.
You name us soldier, but y ou name not us.
The two boys went across to the musicians al nd asked
for a Germa n song, only to be charming and to be smiled at
in return.
The musicians could not understand their English, -
and the boys could not remember the name of the tune they
wanted. One of them agreed 'to try shdrwhictle 1t, and
when he began the silence.fell and. was terrible.
whistled softly, without conviction, and gradually: the
murdering silence entered his flesh and'at last he stopped
whistling, paralysed and alone in his exile, the tune dead
al nd forgotten on his hands. He said like a broken man,
"Then it goes up to a higher piteh, II- waving his hand high
in the air to wave away the ghosts.
The musicians shook
their heads again, and then the soldiers smiled at them.
with the faces of beggars and walked across to the door and
stumbled sick and. hot into the night.
This morning I walked in the woods at Hellbrunn,
ar nd everything was still and waiting.
The air was dumb and
heavy before a storm.
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enter death.
But then the shells exploded, six of them
together, at the top of the crater where I was lying, and
my fear suddenly quickened again amid the deafening. crashes,
and I tried like all the men round me to burrow and burrow
my way into the black earth, scratching at it with my
fingernails.
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a corner of one of therooms downstairs there
were two musicians, with a little card on the table in front
of them: "Bitte, fur die Musik." I stayed there drinking
schna pe for an hour last night.
Listening to these musicians
closely there wa S a plump American soldier.
He sat a t
their table nodding and smiling as they played.
His coat
was open in the front, his head was bowed, and he was happy
and himself.
When later two other soldiers looked in,
thinner and younger, he called across to them and asked them
to join him.
They laughed and smiled with him, but without
pleasure.
They were brown-faced children, whereas he was
father, calm and expansive, flushed. They were exiles.
That was the abashed horror in their faces.
We are exales.
You glance at us; your eyes say, Soldier, a nd you turn
away. We are boys. We have mothers.
We have childhoods.
We have names.
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and the trees made a hot, clo'sed dome round me, the
twigs and bracken stirred and cracked under my feet. 1
I walked in other.Au ustrian woods. during the- autumn of
1945, also before rain, when I had been released from the
bonds of my: crucifixion, though not released undonditionally.
Did
a Tabulous country of mremeries, end
wherever
nd alive as
tenges you are altvett
During 1946 and 1947 I would blush and my heart
would beat faster at the mention in conversation of the
word battle, or at the questions, Were you in the army?
Where did you serve during the War? I was a mute wanting
to make my ghostly revelation, and I went down into the pit,
and the sky sang again. What did yoù do during the War?
hos y
Show me the place, take mg by the hand and lead me there,
and, tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor and clever shirker,
take off the bandages and let me'see what they did to you.
You are alone in this, but you are all of us.
The legend grew up among my,signallers that wherever
I went the battle became worse.
They said to each other,
He has got a magnet in his pocket.
I remember that when I first entered a battle-area
I did not believe in war. That is what the others must
have seen in my face, a the innocent disbelief in evil that
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murder.
The commanding officer told me I need expect no
opposition, since the Enemy was believed to have fallen
back from the yellow housé. The plan was for me to
remain there until evening, waiting for the English attack
to draw level.
The forward troops would be told of my
presence on the flank.
I left with my men a little later.
They followed
behind me in single file, through some trees, then downwards
into the open valley.
We marched directly towards the
yellow house, not troubling to skirt the fields because
there was so little cover.
I looked from side to side
at the hills above us, waiting for the Enemy to open fire.
I turned and looked back at my men, and they. were wa lking
in silence: behind me, palely, as they did when they walked
into the attack. But we. reached the other side of the
valley untroubled.
We came close to the house and saw no movement
through the windows.
I went to the door al nd pushed it
open, and before me, in a clean living-room, there were
five or six Italian people.
I nodded to them and they
all smiled carefully.
They were not peasants, I think,
but people from one of the big coastal towns.
The furniture
was dainty, al nd there were good carpets on the floor.
There were three men and two women, all of them over thirty.


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time-limit made my happiness the. greater.
My truancy was a steep green hill, a dark lower,
room underneath this hill, a village with a church hidden
and alone, a hill breathing grass and trees, and my tr ual ney
wasa dream I lived, turning in my country bed with joy and
pain at dawn, before thertown was awake.
It was a truancy
made possible by the War alone, and, logically, it was
brought to aniend by the War.
I was evacuated into the
country with other school-children in September, 1939, and
when I arrived I stared at the grey, ruffled lake, at the
islands of tall trees, at the gravel path where chestnut
horses were sometimes to be seen, at the cafés in the main
street, at the cobbled square, at thelrare green hills to
the north, I stared at everything with astonishment and
blessed the War for being the instrument of my release, in
a place where at last/I could breathe, where I was not watched,
where lonely ghosts of men did not walk, where the dawn
came up with no ugly contradiction outside my wind Ow, and
where at evening there were no deathly street-lamps, but
the starting of small animals in the grass.
/Zanbibes
In my work as an officer I combined the role of
the abstract murderer with that of the victim. My.work


TALER AN TRAVEL
Final Selechon
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House
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TALES
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