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Eric Knight : This Above All

'"This Above All", Eric Knight. Believe me I lived and smelt through that book all the horrors of nights and days of bombing and Dunkirk conveys and putrid dressings and various limbs blown off and men coming out of other and talking and men talking their heads off to ease the strain. If I could write a book on what I went through, seeing, smelling and hearing those days it would sound very similar. I just lived that book in parts.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

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