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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... hair in her mouth . She brushes it aside and turns the page . You lay the fiery image back in your mind and let it rest . You know it will obtrude again and again until you find its meaning – here . A Band is assembled on the Band Shell ...
... hair in her mouth . She brushes it aside and turns the page . You lay the fiery image back in your mind and let it rest . You know it will obtrude again and again until you find its meaning – here . A Band is assembled on the Band Shell ...
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... hair , frizzy as a Medusa's and she wore a black dress . She made no more apology for being a German than she did for being a Jew . She put out her hand and said : ' Good effning ' . Nobody laughed at the way she spoke . Her presence ...
... hair , frizzy as a Medusa's and she wore a black dress . She made no more apology for being a German than she did for being a Jew . She put out her hand and said : ' Good effning ' . Nobody laughed at the way she spoke . Her presence ...
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... hair was full of fleas but fleas were not so bad as lice . You could drown the fleas when you washed your hair and make a sieve of your fingers and scoop the corpses into the slop pail . You were given a bottle of strong , green liquid ...
... hair was full of fleas but fleas were not so bad as lice . You could drown the fleas when you washed your hair and make a sieve of your fingers and scoop the corpses into the slop pail . You were given a bottle of strong , green liquid ...
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