All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Marie Remarque, Grossett & Dunlap, 1929.
Many are the students who, upon the reception of their high school reading list, let out a moan of dismay as they
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The French author Albert Dauzat told a fascinating legend that emerged from World War One in a book that was published two years after the Great War.
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In Germany a submarine was called an U-boat, or "Unterseeboot". At the outbreak of World War One, Germany had 33 of them.
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1.
Foreigner,
do not approach
the small building
in the remote part
of this large hospital.
The only people
to whom access is not denied,
are six carefully selected doctors
and about twenty nurses.
He
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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (1893-1918) was an English poet and soldier. He is regarded by many as the leading poet of "the Great War".
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My true name is Isabel Scharpeneel, but my Ghostwriter calls me ‘Isabel Shrapnel', and that's how I spell my name: ‘I-S-A-B-E-L-S-H-R-A-P-N-E-L'.
‘You've made a cute little mistake,' my father says.
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