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The Trench Soldier

by Barry Sadler · 1989

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Casca Longinus, a soldier who cannot die, is sent into the middle of the First World War. There he meets a new kind of industrial warfare of trenches, machine guns and gas, the first conflict of its scale. Surrounded by men dying in huge numbers, he finds himself envious of their release, since death keeps passing him by. The novel follows him through the mud and carnage of the front.

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