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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... never , never , never wanted Robert in her sight again . All because he wouldn't fight a man she didn't love and whom he'd never seen . The matron snapped her fingers and the final cab was hailed . After their luggage had been lashed to ...
... never , never , never wanted Robert in her sight again . All because he wouldn't fight a man she didn't love and whom he'd never seen . The matron snapped her fingers and the final cab was hailed . After their luggage had been lashed to ...
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... never a question I wouldn't ask and rarely an answer I wasn't given . I don't know why that was . When I think back and hear myself - some of the questions must've been stupefyingly rude - but it may be I was given the answers because I ...
... never a question I wouldn't ask and rarely an answer I wasn't given . I don't know why that was . When I think back and hear myself - some of the questions must've been stupefyingly rude - but it may be I was given the answers because I ...
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... never fathomed that . There , in the midst of battle , a picket was posted to assure us that the killer - Ross would ... never offered death to anyone . I've prayed for it often enough . But I've never made the offer . But that night ...
... never fathomed that . There , in the midst of battle , a picket was posted to assure us that the killer - Ross would ... never offered death to anyone . I've prayed for it often enough . But I've never made the offer . But that night ...
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