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727 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
The bombardment had turned him into "another person, one out of whom all courage had been poured away." His fear haunted him and he thought if he had something to do he might forget it. Afterward he had read Trollope's Framley Parsonage. "It was delightful. Nothing happens in the book. And one day, I thought, we may return to a life in which nothing ever happens."1918 saw the end of three dynastic rulers in Russia, Germany and Austria. It also brought the influenza pandemic to which more people succombed than deaths from all the battles of the Great War.