The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History - Plot & Excerpts
There is nothing to stop me. I just lift the wire loop on a makeshift gate and I am strolling through the haunted grove.The birds are in good voice, the trees are pushing out their tender leaves. There isn’t a soul in sight. I am here at Ploegsteert wood in southern Belgium, not far from the French border; and as I meander over the mossy forest floor I think of how things might have looked a hundred years ago.This wood was once famous in Britain. Almost every newspaper reader would have known the name—or rather the name the soldiers gave it. This was Plugstreet, on the Western Front. A century ago the trees were shot to stumps, the branches shredded, the birds silent, the soil contaminated with explosive and other toxins. This was where Lieutenant Colonel Churchill came out on his nocturnal prowlings, terrifying the rest of the patrol by making a noise like a ‘baby elephant’. I can see the remains of the trenches they might have snuck through on their way to the front, now full of black and slimy water.
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