Excerpt from Passed as CensoredIT is pleasant to know that you like to read what I have to tell, but I can hardly believe these hasty letters of mine would be of general interest. At times a great desire to write seizes me, usually when something has impressed itself upon me, and then I just sit down and pen it off as it comes - all the while getting a great pleasure and relief from doing so. Then, too, it has seemed to me that the impressions of a non-combatant, one of the horde who are so necessary to the successful and efficient carrying on of the front lines, yet who are commonly so little considered, might be interesting. The vast majority of war stuff in literature tells of the trenches, and fighting, and bleeding, and deeds of valor and dying, while little is ever told of what is officially known under the letters S. O'. R., the Service of the Rear. Practically nothing is told of the super human efforts back here, its real risks, its periods of feverish activity, its long intervals of awful waiting when with nothing to do, no prospects of work, no relaxation, men who have led busy, active lives, who are used to doing things, must keep a stiff upper lip so that when the time of their need does come, they will not be found wanting. All this, I say, is most vivid to me - but I cannot feel I am the man to tell the great story. B. M. B.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.