The WarsPenguin Books, 1979 - 190 pages Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war--The War to End All Wars. He found himself in the nightmare world of trench warfare, of mud and smoke, of chlorine gas and rotting corpses. In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performed a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death. |
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... man , Robert decided . Eager to be of help - and resourceful in his way - he was also a cold man to whom , it seemed ... Man's Land . Robert was more perturbed by the turning of Levitt's pages . He wished the tarp was open , no matter ...
... man , Robert decided . Eager to be of help - and resourceful in his way - he was also a cold man to whom , it seemed ... Man's Land . Robert was more perturbed by the turning of Levitt's pages . He wished the tarp was open , no matter ...
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... mans . If it did there wasn't a chance in a million of survival . They would just be sitting ducks and that would be the ... Man's Land and then the German trenches . The beds could be cut where he stood . It was not too bad a position ...
... mans . If it did there wasn't a chance in a million of survival . They would just be sitting ducks and that would be the ... Man's Land and then the German trenches . The beds could be cut where he stood . It was not too bad a position ...
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... man- power nor time between the attacks for this . Robert had not yet been to the trenches . All his working hours were ... Man's Land . It was now a hundred and fifty yards behind the British line . But the advance and its success was ...
... man- power nor time between the attacks for this . Robert had not yet been to the trenches . All his working hours were ... Man's Land . It was now a hundred and fifty yards behind the British line . But the advance and its success was ...
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