Question

JB Priestley - 1963

Accepted Answer

“The British command specialised
in throwing men away for nothing. The tradition of an officer class, defying both imagination and
common sense, killed most of my friends as surely as if those cavalry generals had come out of the
chateaux with polo mallets and beaten their brains out. Call this class prejudice if you like, so long
as you remember … that I went into that war without any such prejudice, free of any class feeling.
No doubt I came out of it with a chip on my shoulder; a big, heavy chip, probably some friend’s
thigh-bone”

Class I Jb Priestley British Command Specialised Throwing