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Two Famous, Forgotten WWI Novels Frederic Manning's The Middle Parts of Fortune was praised by Hemingway as "the finest and noblest book of war that I have ever read," and Winston Churchill thought The Secret Battle, by A. P. Herbert, who died on this day in 1971, "a soldier's tale cut in stone to melt all hearts." Both books are now all but forgotten, or raise issues many would rather forget. |
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