The WarsClarke, Irwin, 1977 - 226 pages In 1915, Robert Ross, a young Canadian, enlists in the army as an officer. His experiences of life in a training camp, of the trenches in Europe, and with death, are vividly told. Some strong language amd explicit descriptions of sex. Winner of the 1977 Governor General's Award for Fiction. 1977. |
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... dead . Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance . They look at you and rearrange their thoughts . They say : " I don't remember . " The occupants of memory have to be protected from strangers . Ask what happened ...
... dead . Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance . They look at you and rearrange their thoughts . They say : " I don't remember . " The occupants of memory have to be protected from strangers . Ask what happened ...
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... dead . 8:15 a.m. When they reached what remained of the 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 encoun- tered there in the dark had yet been moved ...
... dead . 8:15 a.m. When they reached what remained of the 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 encoun- tered there in the dark had yet been moved ...
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... Dead . His eyes wide and staring . He had strangled on his shirt tail . Robert rolled him back , face down in the mud , and went to the man with the broken legs . All this while the German was watching him but Robert felt entirely safe ...
... Dead . His eyes wide and staring . He had strangled on his shirt tail . Robert rolled him back , face down in the mud , and went to the man with the broken legs . All this while the German was watching him but Robert felt entirely safe ...
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