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Page 49
... terrible first years of the 1914 war left one inevitably with premonition of disaster , so that even hope was a kind of self - indulgence and self- deception . The restless foreboding of those days was broken for me by a strange , grim ...
... terrible first years of the 1914 war left one inevitably with premonition of disaster , so that even hope was a kind of self - indulgence and self- deception . The restless foreboding of those days was broken for me by a strange , grim ...
Page 54
... terrible suspense with Britain on the razor's edge of complete disaster ; in the village we were domestically on the beaches . For Percy , who had come to me about his mother only a few days ago , and Jim and Dick and Chris , whom I had ...
... terrible suspense with Britain on the razor's edge of complete disaster ; in the village we were domestically on the beaches . For Percy , who had come to me about his mother only a few days ago , and Jim and Dick and Chris , whom I had ...
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... hinge , and the roof damaged . It was soon still further wrecked by the terrible havoc caused by a land mine which fell at the back , killing several families and blasting all our rooms in reverse 62 THE JOURNEY NOT THE ARRIVAL MATTERS.
... hinge , and the roof damaged . It was soon still further wrecked by the terrible havoc caused by a land mine which fell at the back , killing several families and blasting all our rooms in reverse 62 THE JOURNEY NOT THE ARRIVAL MATTERS.
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