Brittain, Vera, Diary, 7 October 1915

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Diary of Vera Brittain

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Case Study: 
From Youth to Experience: Vera Brittain’s Work for Peace in Two World Wars
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Brittain, Vera
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diary
Date: 
7 October 1915
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Brittain, Vera

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McMaster University Libraries
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Vera Brittain estate; McMaster University has a non-exclusive licence to publish this document.

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most extraordinary thing of all is that an Anglo-French force (for we are of course pledged to protect Serbia against any fresh attack on her) has landed at Salonika, which is I suppose the only way they can reach Serbia, and the Greeks appear to have agreed, even though grudgingly, to this. And thus we are starting a sixth campaign when we are unable to achieve success in one. Truly it seems a tangle which will never be unravelled. And if Greece enters the War on the side of the enemy the Anglo-French force will be in a delightful position, surrounded by enemies on all sides.
The War is like a snowball which gathers volume as it goes on rolling. Every day seems to take us further from the end. Every month introduces some new & complicating element which further involves all the elements already there. It is too gigantic for the mind to grasp. And through everything, involving things still more, run everyone's personal interests & loves & despairs, most terrible of all.
How I pity the children of future years who will have to "do" this war for History & public examinations! ...