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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Timothy Findley. no longer wear their furs ; they drape them from their arms with all the foxtail trophies hanging ... arm in arm and singing : ' Keep Your Head Down , Fritzie Boy ! ' Tea - Dance partners do the Castlewalk to orchestras ...
Timothy Findley. no longer wear their furs ; they drape them from their arms with all the foxtail trophies hanging ... arm in arm and singing : ' Keep Your Head Down , Fritzie Boy ! ' Tea - Dance partners do the Castlewalk to orchestras ...
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... arm in greeting . Why should the Indians not be greeted standing by the railroad track ? But nobody moved . Everyone ... arms of rock and the broken , frozen fingers of nameless rivers , heralded by steam and whirling snow , the train ...
... arm in greeting . Why should the Indians not be greeted standing by the railroad track ? But nobody moved . Everyone ... arms of rock and the broken , frozen fingers of nameless rivers , heralded by steam and whirling snow , the train ...
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... arms , like horses ' tails . It caught round my neck and I thought I couldn't breathe - that I was going to drown and die . Until I began to swim again - and once I began to swim again I realized the kelp was coming with me . See ? In ...
... arms , like horses ' tails . It caught round my neck and I thought I couldn't breathe - that I was going to drown and die . Until I began to swim again - and once I began to swim again I realized the kelp was coming with me . See ? In ...
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