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Memoirs & Diaries - The Best 500 Cockney War Stories - Lull

"Lull" section of "The Best 500 Cockney War Stories" Published in London in 1921, The Best 500 Cockney War Stories comprised, in the words of its newspaper publisher (The London Evening News) "a remembering and retelling of those war days when laughter sometimes saved men's reason".

The collection of short memoirs, some 500 in total, is divided into five categories - Action, Lull, Hospital, High Seas and Here and There.

Other sections within the collection can be accessed using the sidebar to the right.

Summarised below is a list of the story pages available within the second of these categories, Lull:

Stories
Rate of Exchange - On Berlin and four other stories
He Met Shackleton! and four other stories
Gunga Din the Second and four other stories
Help from Hindenburg and four other stories
A Jerry He Couldn't Kill and four other stories
"Why 'aint the Band Playing?" and four other stories
The Army "Loops the Loop" and four other stories
Not Knowin' the Language and four other stories
Old Moore Was Right and four other stories
Got His Goat! and four other stories
Lucky He Was Born British and four other stories
The "Shovers" and four other stories
Two Guineas' Worth and four other stories
A Thirst Worth Saving and four other stories
Their Very Own Secret and four other stories
Jack Went a-Riding and four other stories
The Lost Gumboot and four other stories
To the General, About the Colonel and four other stories
The "Tich" Touch and four other stories
Modern Conveniences and four other stories
Met His Match and four other stories
Three Brace of Braces and four other stories
Twice Nightly and four other stories
Ducking 'em - then Nursing 'em and four other stories
Not a Single Cockney and four other stories
General Salute! and four other stories
No Use Arguing with a Mule
Straight From the Heart and four other stories
Shell as a Hammer and four other stories
Scots Reveille and four other stories
Too Light - By One Rissole and four other stories
Mons, 1914 - Not Moscow 1812!
The Lion Laughed Up His Sleeve and four other stories
"For 'Eavens Sake, Stop Sniffin'!" and four other stories
The General Goes Skating and four other stories
Lads of the Village and three other stories

By 1918 the percentage of women to men working in Britain had risen to 37% from 24% at the start of the war.

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