Betty B.
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3,598 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Betty B.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I love my own country, but I do not see how any Frenchman can help loving France.
The patches of devastation accentuate the beauty of the recreation.
On the chalky hillsides of the Red Zone
Shell holes are still left, and near the battlefields, the trees are like a dead forest in Alaska where the fire has swept through.
Some places are as barren as the Sahara.
By the roadside are the trunks of trees cut down by the Germans, or it may have been by the Allies themselves for military reasons.
This is an old Picardy, where the Somme River flows.
This department is a plateau, in some places 500 feet high.
It is a blanket of gravel and clay with chalk underneath.
We can see the mine craters, which are the white of the chalky subsoil.
In one chalk bank, along the roadside, above some bales of barbed wire, I counted six shells.
As we ride on, we pass through village after village.
Some are miserable, some prosperous, but the meanest is the beloved home of a peasant who lived there before the war wiped out the town, and he is bound to come back.
The government offered new land and new houses where the people would be better off than before, but many of them refused to leave.
Take, for instance, Beloy-en-Santerre, the village near where Alan Seeger was killed.
You will remember his poems, among the best written during the war, and especially the one beginning, I have a rendezvous with death.
It was at Beloy-en-Santerre that death met him.
The town was reduced to a mud hole.
not worth rebuilding.
Instead, the government offered each of its families 10 acres of land with good barns and buildings in a more fertile region not far away.
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