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Fighting For Life
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Fought on almost every continent, World War II confronted American GIs with the unprecedented threats to life and health posed by combat on Arctic ice floes and African deserts, in steamy jungles and remote mountain villages, in the stratosphere and the depths of the sea.
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Albert E. Cowdrey
ALBERT COWDREY is a retired historian living in New Orleans. His novelette "Queen for a Day" won the World Fantasy Award in 2002.
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