Britain's Forgotten Battle AC25 her every feature was scrutinised

her every feature was scrutinised

but they rarely mean the same thing

and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe

With Keri Smith's unique sensibility

Britain's Forgotten Battle AC25 her every feature was scrutinisedOn 8 February 1945, over 50,000 British and Canadian soldiers moved forward to attack German defensive positions centred on the vast Reichswald Forest, in what proved to be one of the last and bloodiest battles of the whole of the Second World War in Europe. The Reichswald (German Imperial Forest) on the Rhineland borders of the Netherlands and Germany became the location of an epic struggle that eventually sucked in over 200,000 British and Canadian