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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... German who had lain out in No Man's Land for four days without food . He was staring at the sky lying on a stretcher . There was a party , too , of about twenty - five or thirty German prisoners who had deserted and come over that ...
... German who had lain out in No Man's Land for four days without food . He was staring at the sky lying on a stretcher . There was a party , too , of about twenty - five or thirty German prisoners who had deserted and come over that ...
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... German soldier with a pair of binoculars staring right at him . Robert stared back - unmoving . The German - who was lying down at the very edge of the crater - lowered the binoculars . Robert could see his eyes . He was very young ...
... German soldier with a pair of binoculars staring right at him . Robert stared back - unmoving . The German - who was lying down at the very edge of the crater - lowered the binoculars . Robert could see his eyes . He was very young ...
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... German could not but help see it . He didn't want to point it at him yet . He waited to see what reaction the gun itself would get . The German raised his binoculars . Then he lowered them - but that was all . Robert said : ' Bates ...
... German could not but help see it . He didn't want to point it at him yet . He waited to see what reaction the gun itself would get . The German raised his binoculars . Then he lowered them - but that was all . Robert said : ' Bates ...
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