I don't have the Lewis-Stempel book at hand to go digging for quotes, but this is from an eyewitness account of the Somme: > "It was the birdsong," he said, "t

I don't have the Lewis-Stempel book at hand to go digging for quotes, but this is from an eyewitness account of the Somme: > "It was the birdsong," he said, "the birdsong in that short gap when the artillery barrage stopped and before the whistles blew for us to get out of the trench and start running - it was beautiful." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36689445 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36689445