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Bookpossum · 12-14-2014, 05:15 PM

Thanks for that link Hamlet. The numbers of those killed and those otherwise damaged (possibly not including those injured mentally rather than physically) are quite staggering when you see them all written down like that.

I too am finding the book very powerful. The part where the narrator and his friend came upon a place where the dead had been laid out on the ground and were rotting was all the more horrific because of the matter-of-fact way in which it was described. It's a wonder that any of the soldiers came out of the war with any sanity left at all.

12-14-2014, 05:15 PM	#15
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,137 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	Thanks for that link Hamlet. The numbers of those killed and those otherwise damaged (possibly not including those injured mentally rather than physically) are quite staggering when you see them all written down like that. I too am finding the book very powerful. The part where the narrator and his friend came upon a place where the dead had been laid out on the ground and were rotting was all the more horrific because of the matter-of-fact way in which it was described. It's a wonder that any of the soldiers came out of the war with any sanity left at all.