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Still, the more sardonic they became, the more he cared for them. Still he could not quite believe them, he could not comprehend the lengths to which they allowed themselves to be driven.

— Sebastian Faulks Birdsong (1993)

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He depended on the resilience of certain men to nerve himself to his unnatural life.

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If they could shout loud enough they might bring the world back to it's senses, they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead.

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Any man shirking his duty would be shot on the spot.

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He blamed the NCOs, who blamed the officers; they swore at the staff officers who blamed the Generals.

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