Kings, Queens and Pawns
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ISBN10: 1544634536
ISBN13: 9781544634531
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 26 2017
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781544634531
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 26 2017
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
For King and Country! All through England, all through France, all through that tragic corner of Belgium which remains to her, are similar armies, drilling and waiting, equally young, equally eager, equally resolute. And the thing they were going to I knew. I had seen it in that mysterious region which had swallowed up those who had gone before; in the trenches, in the operating, rooms of field hospitals, at outposts between the confronting armies where the sentries walked hand in hand with death. I had seen it in its dirt and horror and sordidness, this thing they were going to. War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of battle. It is much more than that. War is a boy carried on a stretcher, looking up at God's blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been wounded by a
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