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    Tales of War
    Tales of War
    Tales of War
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    Tales of War

    By Baron Dunsany Edward Plunkett

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    You will love Lord Dunsany's insightful experience of World War I. Excerpt: "When the war came there was no more than thirty men there between sixteen and forty-five. They all went. "They all kept together; same battalion, same platoon. They was like that in Daleswood. Used to call the hop pickers foreigners…"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateJul 21, 2022
    ISBN8596547099895
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