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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... Robert had asked , ' didn't you apply to play in the band ? ' ' Oh , ' said Willie , ' if I was playing in the band I wouldn't be here . ' He was that uncomplicated . He carried his bugle on a string across his back . Unlike Regis ...
... Robert had asked , ' didn't you apply to play in the band ? ' ' Oh , ' said Willie , ' if I was playing in the band I wouldn't be here . ' He was that uncomplicated . He carried his bugle on a string across his back . Unlike Regis ...
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... Robert asked Harris once if he wasn't afraid , swimming around with whales that way and floating on the tide . Drowning had always been a particular fear of Robert's . No. Harris said : he wasn't afraid at all . His mother had died when ...
... Robert asked Harris once if he wasn't afraid , swimming around with whales that way and floating on the tide . Drowning had always been a particular fear of Robert's . No. Harris said : he wasn't afraid at all . His mother had died when ...
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... Robert couldn't carry them to France . And there wasn't any church where they'd accept them because no one would accept the ashes of a man who hadn't been a parishioner . Barbara said : Why don't you scatter them ? Where ? Robert asked ...
... Robert couldn't carry them to France . And there wasn't any church where they'd accept them because no one would accept the ashes of a man who hadn't been a parishioner . Barbara said : Why don't you scatter them ? Where ? Robert asked ...
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