The Curse of Turan

The Italian Ugo was a small man, and he could scarcely see over the battlements. Besides, the chainmail he was wearing was far too big for him and hung loosely down over his thin body. His helmet was too big for his head. He looked quite absurd, standing there and scarcely able to see over …

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The Escapee’s War

The bat was a bit of a rafter, the ball a piece of rag tied with string; and the wicket a parrot cage with the clean, dry corpse of a parrot inside… Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That Evans was captured trying – unsuccessfully – to set fire to his plane in No Man’s Land. …

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