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Life, death and growing up on the western front /

"This book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unmentioned for many decades. Intrigued by...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fletcher, Anthony (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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