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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... standing by the railroad track ? But nobody moved . Everyone was frozen in their places - staring till the train removed them - slowly tearing them apart like paper torn in half . All across the prairie , down through Winnipeg into the ...
... standing by the railroad track ? But nobody moved . Everyone was frozen in their places - staring till the train removed them - slowly tearing them apart like paper torn in half . All across the prairie , down through Winnipeg into the ...
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... Standing on the steps , but not quite with her husband , Mrs Ross eyed the congregation of men and women with whom she had been a child . They had all - she kept thinking- been children together . Why were they standing here in this ...
... Standing on the steps , but not quite with her husband , Mrs Ross eyed the congregation of men and women with whom she had been a child . They had all - she kept thinking- been children together . Why were they standing here in this ...
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... standing rigidly in place waiting for their orders to advance to the front . When the shells began to fall in the ranks , there was instant panic . The narrow streets filled up with running men . Convoys of ammunition and petrol were ...
... standing rigidly in place waiting for their orders to advance to the front . When the shells began to fall in the ranks , there was instant panic . The narrow streets filled up with running men . Convoys of ammunition and petrol were ...
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