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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... night . What had become of all the spires and the formal , comforting shapes of commerce he remembered - banks and shops and business palaces with flags ? Where were the streets with houses ranged behind their lawns under the gentle ...
... night . What had become of all the spires and the formal , comforting shapes of commerce he remembered - banks and shops and business palaces with flags ? Where were the streets with houses ranged behind their lawns under the gentle ...
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... night , later on when Robert was twelve - he decided he would run the marathon himself . Twenty - six times around the block - down through the ravine and back along the sidewalk – running in his bare feet . He did this after supper one ...
... night , later on when Robert was twelve - he decided he would run the marathon himself . Twenty - six times around the block - down through the ravine and back along the sidewalk – running in his bare feet . He did this after supper one ...
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... night was the guns , whose emplacements were more or less constant . - To the south of Wytsbrouk , the line was particularly weak . This was in the region where the ridge , which the Germans still held , took its turn to the north ...
... night was the guns , whose emplacements were more or less constant . - To the south of Wytsbrouk , the line was particularly weak . This was in the region where the ridge , which the Germans still held , took its turn to the north ...
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