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I have just finished it. I didn't like the final chapter, which didn't ring true to me. But the rest of the book I thought was terrific, especially the unbearably long chapter on the battle and the following chapter about the journey to reach medical assistance for a wounded comrade.
It seems ironic that those early editors toned down the language so that readers weren't offended by swearwords, when the real obscenity was in the war itself.
I'm so glad to have read this book, grim though it was. Thank you for including it in your list, Billi. Very powerful indeed.
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