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Fiction

Curmudgeoness

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2. That book really is an excellent book.

Reply to libodem (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 2, 2014, 05:08 PM

Feb 2014

I have read the second in the trilogy as well. I love history in novels, but I do agree that reading about the horrors of war is difficult. I just feel as if it is important to realize what people go through when they are sent off to fight wars, so I trudge though it.

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