Traveling with a team that includes two interpreters, a photographer, a cameraman, a ballistics specialist, a mapping expert and a notetaker, Father Desbois records all the stories on video, sometimes holding the microphone himself, and asking questions in simple language and a flat tone.

In many ways this process replicates the stone trods or pannierways which date from the mediaeval period and are a feature of many parts of the North York Moors.

Whatever your views about the rights and wrongs of these military campaigns, you would probably agree that it is psychologically easier to kill 'gooks' and 'turkeys' than human beings. Here are some more examples of 'warspeak', which is often used to cover up the reality on the ground.

Great Mountjoy! were that name sincerely scann’d, / Mysterious hieroglyphics would explain; / Each letter’s allegory grace the hand / By whom the sense should learnèdly be drawn, / To stop the dull conceits of wits profane; / Diving into the depth of hidden art, / To give but due to each deserving part.