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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... dead and wounded and stretcher bearers trying to go the other way so Robert finally decided to make instead for the Battalion Signals Office thinking it might serve as a natural magnet to anyone of the men who might have survived . This ...
... dead and wounded and stretcher bearers trying to go the other way so Robert finally decided to make instead for the Battalion Signals Office thinking it might serve as a natural magnet to anyone of the men who might have survived . This ...
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... dead . 8.15 a.m. When they reached what remained of the forward trench they found it so shot up and so cut off from the rest of the line that none of the dead or wounded Robert had encountered there in the dark had yet been moved . They ...
... dead . 8.15 a.m. When they reached what remained of the forward trench they found it so shot up and so cut off from the rest of the line that none of the dead or wounded Robert had encountered there in the dark had yet been moved . They ...
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... dead . I didn't ask . Then he wanted to know where my own room was and I told him down the hall . I said : ' I sort of waver on the verge of the nursery so that Wilson can keep an eye on me . Most of the time I give her the slip . She ...
... dead . I didn't ask . Then he wanted to know where my own room was and I told him down the hall . I said : ' I sort of waver on the verge of the nursery so that Wilson can keep an eye on me . Most of the time I give her the slip . She ...
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