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Damned (Damned, #1)

by Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)

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The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

by Holger H. Herwig

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Drew said: " Herwig's book is not, strictly speaking, about the Battle of the Marne; it's a narrative of the opening of the war from the Battles of the Frontiers, to Mons, to the Marne, and the subsequent (German) fallback from the Marne. In essence, the first tw ...more "

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“The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.”
― Ralph Ellison, Living with Music: Jazz Writings

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