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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... father watched from the porch and counted off the laps . Twenty - six times . On top of liver and bacon with scalloped tomatoes . This was unwise . Mrs Ross and Eena the maid both said so . ' He will die , ' they said . ' Twenty - six ...
... father watched from the porch and counted off the laps . Twenty - six times . On top of liver and bacon with scalloped tomatoes . This was unwise . Mrs Ross and Eena the maid both said so . ' He will die , ' they said . ' Twenty - six ...
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... father known he would be there ? And why - though he didn't ask this in his letter - if his father had been able to come , hadn't Mrs Ross accompanied him ? Anyway , the sight of his father had lifted his spirits im- measurably . And ...
... father known he would be there ? And why - though he didn't ask this in his letter - if his father had been able to come , hadn't Mrs Ross accompanied him ? Anyway , the sight of his father had lifted his spirits im- measurably . And ...
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... father - cablegrams and letters . Nothing . He'd even requested his own father to send a cable from Toronto . Nothing . Then it was solved - through a dreadful mistake . When Robert returned to the Royal Free Hospital the day after ...
... father - cablegrams and letters . Nothing . He'd even requested his own father to send a cable from Toronto . Nothing . Then it was solved - through a dreadful mistake . When Robert returned to the Royal Free Hospital the day after ...
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