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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... trench with a lance corporal in command of two mor- tars . Seven more men and a sergeant were on rest in a bay where they'd made themselves a very comfortable dugout with a brazier . Robert had done no more than make the introduction ...
... trench with a lance corporal in command of two mor- tars . Seven more men and a sergeant were on rest in a bay where they'd made themselves a very comfortable dugout with a brazier . Robert had done no more than make the introduction ...
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... trench itself and all the communication trenches were clogged with dead and wounded and stretcher bearers trying to go the other way so Robert finally decided to make instead for the Battalion Signals Office thinking it might serve as a ...
... trench itself and all the communication trenches were clogged with dead and wounded and stretcher bearers trying to go the other way so Robert finally decided to make instead for the Battalion Signals Office thinking it might serve as a ...
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... trench . This was the only way they could be told apart from the wounded . All were a uniform shade of grey . Even their blood had lost its colour . The air was green with the mist of dissipated body- warmth . And dark . The trench was ...
... trench . This was the only way they could be told apart from the wounded . All were a uniform shade of grey . Even their blood had lost its colour . The air was green with the mist of dissipated body- warmth . And dark . The trench was ...
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