"Only one thing is certain: Europe will either come to an understanding or it will go under. The first is impossible, and so the second follows."
------------------------------- German Foreign Office Councillor Kurt Riezler, secretary to Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg, diary entry of 3 October 1917
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Most of my uniform was intact and sections of it were smoking. I took stock of what I had and looked around to see what I could use as a weapon, as I could see no rifles about. The small bits of metal here and there from the bits of barb wire and the various buckles and other adornments on the bodies that surrounded me were trailing gray trails upward, like all of the metal spirits had been defeated.