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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... Bailleul back and forward and forward and back . There was always a convoy or a staggered line of troops or a train of wagons and ambulances moving against him . Back and forward forward and back . It was just a muddy circus and ...
... Bailleul back and forward and forward and back . There was always a convoy or a staggered line of troops or a train of wagons and ambulances moving against him . Back and forward forward and back . It was just a muddy circus and ...
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... Bailleul to the ground . Their long - range guns had begun to fire that afternoon . At first these shells fell only in the orchards on the outskirts but through the night they probed with deeper and deeper bursts into the heart of the ...
... Bailleul to the ground . Their long - range guns had begun to fire that afternoon . At first these shells fell only in the orchards on the outskirts but through the night they probed with deeper and deeper bursts into the heart of the ...
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... Bailleul that an officer of the C.F.A. had shot and killed one of his men and had then made off with a great many horses in the direction of Magdalene Wood . It took some time , due to the confusion at Bailleul , to discover that the ...
... Bailleul that an officer of the C.F.A. had shot and killed one of his men and had then made off with a great many horses in the direction of Magdalene Wood . It took some time , due to the confusion at Bailleul , to discover that the ...
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