As I was walking through the woods one day I found a book damp and half hidden in the undergrowth<\/p>\n
It was called Life and Adventure in British Guiana<\/i> <\/b>and had been written by a Frenchman called Jules Farry in 1903<\/p>\n
I opened the book carefully expecting to find etchings and photographs of dusky maidens and well as numerous tales of daring and adventure in that land of mud<\/p>\n
Instead I found a written account of an extraordinary war story<\/p>\n
It seems that during the Battle of the Somme that some twenty soldiers both German and English discovered a set of tunnels dug in Napoleonic times<\/p>\n
Tiring of the slaughter they retreated into these tunnels where they lived in peace until 1951 when they all re-emerged after a democratic vote<\/p>\n
This is all I read as I was disturbed by a German soldier in full SS uniform who insisted that I return the book to him<\/p>\n
I did not argue as this soldier had obviously been dead for many years for under his smart uniform only his skeleton remained<\/p>\n
This said he had retained his wonderful blue eyes<\/p>\n
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