Greenmantle - John Buchan - Libros -  - 9798668431052 - 13 de octubre de 2020
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Greenmantle

Book Excerpt: ....like soldiering?''Right enough, ' I said, 'though this isn't just the kind of war I would have picked myself. It's a comfortless, bloody business. But we've got the measure of the old Boche now, and it's dogged as does it. I count on getting back to the front in a week or two.''Will you get the battalion?' he asked. He seemed to have followed my doings pretty closely.'I believe I've a good chance. I'm not in this show for honour and glory, though. I want to do the best I can, but I wish to heaven it was over. All I think of is coming out of it with a whole skin.'He laughed. 'You do yourself an injustice. What about the forward observation post at the Lone Tree? You forgot about the whole skin then.'I felt myself getting red. 'That was all rot, ' I said, 'and I can't think who told you about it. I hated the job, but I had to do it to prevent my subalterns going to glory. They were a lot of fire-eating young lunatics. If I had sent one of them he'd have gone on his knees t...

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Publicado 13 de octubre de 2020
ISBN13 9798668431052
Páginas 240
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 14 mm   ·   358 g
Lengua Inglés  

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