Death of a Hero
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The opening
PROLOGUE MORTE D’UN EROE ALLEGRETTO
ALLEGRETTO
The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice—last spasms of Europe’s severed arteries. Of course, nobody much bothered to read the lists. Why should they? The living must protect themselves from the dead, especially the intrusive dead. But the twentieth century had lost its Spring with a vengeance. So a good deal of forgetting had to be done.
Under the heading “Killed in Action,” one of these later lists contained the words:
Winterbourne, Edward Frederick George, A./Capt., 2/9 Battn., R. Foddershire Regt.
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About this edition
- The words
- The author's text, copied word for word.
- Copied from
- Left out
- The source library's header, footer and license
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 2 places
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- The closing line "THE END" (the app ends the book itself)