Shouting La Guerre, La Guerre

I must confess to never having been much of a historian, but was fascinated by the gardens of remembrance, memorials and monuments, museums and artefacts, and learned an enormous amount about the Great War, especially from a most excellent museum visited on our last day, the Historial de la Grande Guerre at Péronne. In one of those serendipitous coincidences that occur all too rarely, I had happened to sample a new tipple in the hotel bar the night before; the dagger felt at discovering the absence of the much anticipated brew Pelforth was healed immediately upon my accepting the waiting s...