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Tales of War

Lord Dunsany

Publisher: Good Press

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Tales of War by Lord Dunsany is a collection of tales that depict life in the trenches during the First World War. It contains: The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood, The Road, An Imperial Monument, A Walk to the Trenches, A Walk in Picardy, What Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventh. Standing To, The Splendid Traveller, Shells, Two Degrees of Envy, The Master of No Man's Land, Weeds and Wire, Spring in England and Flanders, The Nightmare Countries, Spring and the Kaiser, Two Songs, The Punishment, The English Spirit, The Last Mirage, A Famous Man, The Oases of Death, Anglo-Saxon Tyranny, Memories, The Movement, Nature's Cad, The Home of Herr Schnitzelhaaser, A Deed of Mercy, Last Scene of All, and Old England.
Available since: 11/22/2019.
Print length: 150 pages.

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