“And over all lay a smell,” as Will Irwin wrote, “which I have never heard mentioned in any book on war— the smell of half a million unbathed men .… It lay for days over every town through which the Germans passed.”
Tuchman, Barbara W. (2009-07-22). The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I (Kindle Locations 4903-4905). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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