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The Great War

Easy Reader: Hemingway's Unforgettable 'Farewell to Arms' With Original Ending and Alternates

David Finkle | Posted 10.29.2012 | Books
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David Finkle

The novel is a young man's recollection, and as such it's exceptional. In other words, it's good, and here it is in an edition that delves even deeper into that young man's sustaining romantic obsession.

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The First World War Explains Modern Conflict

O'Brien Browne | Posted 02.08.2012 | World
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O'Brien Browne

We live in the world created by the First World War. Emerging from this cataclysmic event damaged and transformed, we have never wholly recovered.

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Journalist Recalls Interviewing Last Surviving American WWI Veteran

aolnews.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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I met Frank Woodruff Buckles on a chilly March afternoon in 2007 at his farmhouse in Charles Town, W.Va. He was a mere 106 years old back then. The l...

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