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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... seen him in Montreal . As the troop train sat in the yards , Robert had looked from the windows and seen the RAYMOND / ROSS private railway car sitting three or four tracks away at a siding partly obscured by an engine with a snow ...
... seen him in Montreal . As the troop train sat in the yards , Robert had looked from the windows and seen the RAYMOND / ROSS private railway car sitting three or four tracks away at a siding partly obscured by an engine with a snow ...
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... seen in the faltering light . Seventy horses , somewhere in this dark , were trying to maintain their footing . ( The other seventy were beyond the furthest bulkhead in another part of the hold . ) They were all in makeshift stalls ...
... seen in the faltering light . Seventy horses , somewhere in this dark , were trying to maintain their footing . ( The other seventy were beyond the furthest bulkhead in another part of the hold . ) They were all in makeshift stalls ...
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... seen them throw the inmates up against the walls and batter them senseless with their fists . Then they would kneel and sweetly attend to the wounds they had inflicted as if a natural disaster had struck and they must do their best to ...
... seen them throw the inmates up against the walls and batter them senseless with their fists . Then they would kneel and sweetly attend to the wounds they had inflicted as if a natural disaster had struck and they must do their best to ...
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