One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In order to prosecute war, you have to take some risk.
If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.
In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time.
A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.
During war, the laws are silent.
There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.