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a new 'book'

The publishing firm Mackay and Hertz have decided to commission a new “book” for schools on European history.  The “book” is of course not going to be actually printed – it is going to be published on the web.  They are looking for authors; young authors.  
The book’s concept is to combine accounts of events with short background articles.

 

 

you want to write it

Your group has decided to apply for the job – and as part of your application you are going to enclose a sample of your work – a background article on the first world war and an account of one aspect of the war - for example the battle of the Somme.

 

 

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The communication trench was filled with orange slime that covered their boots and puttees. The closer they went to the front line the more it began to smell. Within half a mile it had become no more than a zig-zagged cesspool, thigh-deep in sucking mud that was diluted by the excreta of the over-run latrines and thickened by the decomposing bodies that each new collapse of trench wall revealed in the earth beneath.

communication: (her) forbindelses-
trench: skyttegrav
puttees: viklers (militær gamacher)
zig-zagged: noget der tit skifter retning skarpt
cesspool: slamkiste; kloakpøl
thigh: lår
diluted: fortyndet
excreta: udsondringer
latrines: tør kloset
decomposing: rådnende
revealed: afsløret

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