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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... forward trench they found it so shot up and so cut off from the rest of the line that none of the dead or wounded Robert had encountered there in the dark had yet been moved . They were sitting , squatting , lying everywhere you had to ...
... forward trench they found it so shot up and so cut off from the rest of the line that none of the dead or wounded Robert had encountered there in the dark had yet been moved . They were sitting , squatting , lying everywhere you had to ...
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... forward . She was shy and sort of pretty in a pale , blonde way and Robert didn't mind her attentions . The sweater was well made . He paused on his way out to tell the concierge he would pay for a chicken that evening . The concierge ...
... forward . She was shy and sort of pretty in a pale , blonde way and Robert didn't mind her attentions . The sweater was well made . He paused on his way out to tell the concierge he would pay for a chicken that evening . The concierge ...
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... forward from the rear and Robert found himself always a part of a general counter - movement - like a gigantic conveyor belt that ran between the front and Bailleul back and forward and forward and back . There was always a convoy or a ...
... forward from the rear and Robert found himself always a part of a general counter - movement - like a gigantic conveyor belt that ran between the front and Bailleul back and forward and forward and back . There was always a convoy or a ...
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