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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... windows were agleam with blue lights - ( blue lights for Officers - red lights for the men . Once , some card had placed a yellow light for quarantine in the window of a house across the street where body lice ran rampant . ) Robert got ...
... windows were agleam with blue lights - ( blue lights for Officers - red lights for the men . Once , some card had placed a yellow light for quarantine in the window of a house across the street where body lice ran rampant . ) Robert got ...
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... window at the end of a hall , that a large black Daimler has drawn to the curb . A hatless little man gets out and ... windows , leading to balconies , look out directly at the portals of St Paul's , Knightsbridge - a Gothic miscarriage ...
... window at the end of a hall , that a large black Daimler has drawn to the curb . A hatless little man gets out and ... windows , leading to balconies , look out directly at the portals of St Paul's , Knightsbridge - a Gothic miscarriage ...
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... window . The sound of Mrs Ross's cries to heaven rose up through her room and made her stop her ears . Peggy and Mister Ross sat in the drawing room where Mister Ross had drawn the curtains . Out beyond the windows 178.
... window . The sound of Mrs Ross's cries to heaven rose up through her room and made her stop her ears . Peggy and Mister Ross sat in the drawing room where Mister Ross had drawn the curtains . Out beyond the windows 178.
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