To Serve Them All My Days1980

Boyer:
[giving David the book "Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne"] Do you remember, sir, back in the fifth, you said that if we wanted to know what war was really like, we should read that? You said you'd lost your own copy at Ypres or somewhere.

David Powlett-Jones:
I wouldn't have expected anyone to remember that.

Boyer:
What you said about it then, sir, was that it helped you get through. No matter how bad things were at the front, those 18th century soldiers had it worse, and if Sergeant Bourgogne could get through his war, then, well, maybe you could get through yours.

David Powlett-Jones:
I said all that, did I?

Boyer:
I thought it might help, sir. Well, you know, now.