This looks like something I will print out and read...Like the few pages I had read so far :D

*smiles... hughughug... go - read...

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Ha! Will do. Going to print it out to ready once I get back from Yule Celebrations this week. :D

y'ule have fun to be sure....

*slaps her forehead and gives a grimace that she even said that...

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XD Oh puns, how you invade our language

saw a tale where a tail should have gone - though me wonders if the writer wanted it in there.
if one must teach or train the mad, first one must rise to their level of sanity.

very nicely put... and never fear, he was well taken care of... even the sergeant turned out not to be such a bad person in the end of the telling. We are who we are and made so by the conditions and circumstances of our lives - it's called survival.

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Where can I read the rest of the book? This is top-notch stuff!

*smiles so very big.... thanks for that Marm...

it resides on a shelf in my bedroom... perhaps this is they ear to dust it off and try again to sell it.

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DO EET.

*hugs...

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Look into publishing it on Amazon for the Kindle!

that is a thought and if what I'm trying does not work out then I will definitely probably try that...

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Talk to Patpahootie (Paul Kidd), he's started doing this and is getting a nice little check every month from it.

I will....

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Change one of the characters into a sparkle-vampire by night, gay werewolf by day necromancer detective and publishers will climb over each other to publish it. You'll have a movie deal within a week. Let's do lunch baby!

isn't that the truth though?

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I have it faved mother fox.

Even all of Autralia was shocked that day.

I was only young like 10 or 11.

not to forget... Australia played a very large part in WWI. There is a particular character in the story who came from your fine country, though he was American first...

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Oh....I was ona totally different subject.

we were all shocked Chris; especially those of us who work in aviation... I'm still in shock, and always amazed at what short memories my fellow country people have...

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Are you talking WW1, WW2 or the 9/11 incident?

My comment is about 911 - the story is about WWI.

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Okay, now I know

we were all shocked Chris; especially those of us who work in aviation... I'm still in shock, and always amazed at what short memories my fellow country people have...

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Less than pleased? Oh good Lord.... This is a time of war man, spare no expense and neglect no technique that will give you the edge.

Bunners

you would like the book Bunners... it was based around the British cavalry's adoption of the straight bladed sabre vs the curved blade they had always used - because it was more efficient at killing vs wounding... I stumbled on this bit of history within a huge tomb on the sword that I purchased... another little known fact which was passed to me by an old time military gunner was the Brit's resistance to adopt the machine gun came from the trials where the guns were lubricated with linseed oil - as the guns heated, the linseed oil thickened and caused jamming. This coupled with the belief that the Tommy could put out 15 rounds a minute with the Enfield canceled the order. Then too, the French never went larger than their 75MM field howitzer because they believed the 'krantz' (basicly guts as refered to with bravery) would carry the day... Stupidity abounds in history.

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I'm just getting started on Smileys war.

Bunners

way cool Buns...

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Remarkable all the reasons why the militaries of the nineteenth century were reluctant to adopt new technologies and tactics. If ever you're up for reading a short, accessible, very enlightening history, "The Social History of the Machinegun" gives a concise overview of all the baffling excuses and ingrained culture that hampered modernization.

I can only imagine the feathers that would have been ruffled by Nigel's techniques, especially in an army as rigid and stratified as 1914 England's XD

I would dearly love to read the rest of this. Your ability to put the reader squarely into the time and place is uncanny. While I have been around horses only a few times, it's been enough that I can conjure the scents and sounds that accompany their presence. And the people, within the circumstances of a military training ground in war time, sound utterly genuine. I feel like I just spent half an hour taking a trip in a time machine.

By the way, are you familiar with the book (or its author) "The man who listens to horses" by Monty Roberts? Some of what Nigel was saying squares with what that real life horse trainer has proven to be true. Horses have language, and if you learn it you can begin to see and understand their world. I've read it and highly recommend it to anyone interested in equines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Roberts

I did once see a study on this, there is much eye rolling, body twitching, and so forth. I love horses, and was quite amazed during 'Guliver's Travels' with Ted Dancing, when he visited the land of Horses. In the case of writing this book, I somehow got in touch with something as I knew much more than I had a right to know. It was quite scary at times.

Thanks so very much Wire - your words mean much to me... really really...

*big hug...

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This may be the first time I've ever seen memoir, narrative and history lesson so seamlessly blended together. What with your trademark knack for featuring fascinating characters you've really got something here! Judging from the excerpt this would make a wonderful addition to the body of young adult historical fiction on the war, particularly now that everyone's piqued about the equine end of the conflict. Here's hoping you're able to get this novel out there!

*blushes...

thanks so much LN - as always your opinions are highly valued by this old Fox... as strange as it might sound, this all just came together...

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I just finished this and it's an amazing piece of work. What you've done for history and the war is what Percy Jackson has done for mythology. It's an interesting read and the characters are alive. The story is great and you can believe it actually happened. The pinnacle of story telling.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..... I got goosebumps... thanks so much Lupu...

*big hugs...

By the by I got an email back from the first agent - nix - Oh well...

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I had meant to read only a part at first and found myself at the end before I knew it. Very fine job.

now that makes me smile a lot.....

*hugs....

thank you...

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Wow This was an amazing piece. several sections i had to reread to gather up all the details but well worth a read again.

*smiles so very big... Sir Edwin became a very good friend during the writing and I found myself connected to something far beyond what my experience was capable of. I'm glad you liked it.

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