Timely reading.

''The food was bad, everything was bad, why relive a terribly memory? We would go over the top as though we were going for a walk only to be hit by a battery of machine guns, which blow us to hell. One day (1st July 1916) we went over and by 9am the Regiment was blown to pieces, 140 survived, rest were slaughtered, they would send us out to face machine guns.'' (Herbert Bradbourne, World War I veteran, interview with the Yorkshire Evening Post)
Taken from the book.