"We started at once to dig our trenches,……" — Fritz Kreisler
"We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it."
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Fritz Kreisler
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15 Quotes by Fritz Kreisler
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The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we…
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The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
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