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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... cigarette and carrying an empty glass . For a moment she stood there , holding her hands in tight against her body as if for some reason Robert might take these possessions away from her . The glass and the cigarette were perhaps some ...
... cigarette and carrying an empty glass . For a moment she stood there , holding her hands in tight against her body as if for some reason Robert might take these possessions away from her . The glass and the cigarette were perhaps some ...
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... cigarette fell from her fingers and she had to bend to pick it up . But the laughter was not hysterical , as Robert had feared . He waited for it to stop - and , finally , she explained . ' If only you'd seen yourself . Wearing those ...
... cigarette fell from her fingers and she had to bend to pick it up . But the laughter was not hysterical , as Robert had feared . He waited for it to stop - and , finally , she explained . ' If only you'd seen yourself . Wearing those ...
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Timothy Findley. She even lighted a cigarette . Why should it matter ? The only people passing were children - and they ... cigarette like something she'd found and looked at it much as to say : whatever made me think that this was mine ...
Timothy Findley. She even lighted a cigarette . Why should it matter ? The only people passing were children - and they ... cigarette like something she'd found and looked at it much as to say : whatever made me think that this was mine ...
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