We can’t get out of it now. [WWI]

>And in 1918 he [**Julian Bickersteth**] acknowledged that: >>The war becomes more terrible and soul-corroding as month succeeds month…. It has lost all the romance of some years ago. It is now a perpetual round of dull, prosaic murder, with one desire in the hearts of all – to keep alive a little longer and to see an end to the business. No one has any heart in it… We are in it and we can’t get out of it now, even if it costs the lives of all who are now in France. ________________________________ **Source:** Holmes, Richard. "Steel and Fire." *Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918*. London: HarperCollins, 2004. 464. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Bickersteth (ed.) *Bickersteth Diaries* p. 257. _______________________________ **Further Reading:** [Kenneth Julian Faithfull Bickersteth, MC, QHC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Bickersteth)