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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... smiled and was silent . Robert smiled and was silent , too . He'd go upstairs into the attic , when he was ten , and take off his clothes in front of an old , dark mirror and wish that he was red . Or black . Or yellow . Any colour but ...
... smiled and was silent . Robert smiled and was silent , too . He'd go upstairs into the attic , when he was ten , and take off his clothes in front of an old , dark mirror and wish that he was red . Or black . Or yellow . Any colour but ...
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... smile at me before he left - I couldn't have borne it . ' She put her hand on her forehead . The child was watching ... smiled . Mrs Ross looked down - throwing her furs across her shoulder - masking the flask and putting it back inside ...
... smile at me before he left - I couldn't have borne it . ' She put her hand on her forehead . The child was watching ... smiled . Mrs Ross looked down - throwing her furs across her shoulder - masking the flask and putting it back inside ...
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... smile . I'll tell you a secret about that smile . It wasn't a smile at all . It was a nervous dimple on her left side . True . I swear it . I was saying ... Jamie Villiers . Yes . This was before the war . I was only nine . Or eight or ...
... smile . I'll tell you a secret about that smile . It wasn't a smile at all . It was a nervous dimple on her left side . True . I swear it . I was saying ... Jamie Villiers . Yes . This was before the war . I was only nine . Or eight or ...
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