My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.