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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... Ypres . Six thousand dead and wounded . The war that was meant to end by Christmas might not end till summer . Maybe even fall . This is where the pictures alter - fill up with soldiers - horses - wagons . Everyone is waving either at ...
... Ypres . Six thousand dead and wounded . The war that was meant to end by Christmas might not end till summer . Maybe even fall . This is where the pictures alter - fill up with soldiers - horses - wagons . Everyone is waving either at ...
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... Ypres and all around the centre lie the flats of Flanders . To its rear - which is to say South West- is the only physical landmark worth mentioning : Kemmel Hill . This is three hundred and fifty feet high . Nothing in Belgium rises ...
... Ypres and all around the centre lie the flats of Flanders . To its rear - which is to say South West- is the only physical landmark worth mentioning : Kemmel Hill . This is three hundred and fifty feet high . Nothing in Belgium rises ...
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... Ypres , the more Flemish they became and the more unpronounceable to anyone whose mother tongue was English . Robert had had an encounter with the language problem only that morning when he was approached by a Flemish peasant who had ...
... Ypres , the more Flemish they became and the more unpronounceable to anyone whose mother tongue was English . Robert had had an encounter with the language problem only that morning when he was approached by a Flemish peasant who had ...
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