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This is not a war. It is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.

— Sebastian Faulks Birdsong (1993)

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

Birdsong (1993)

Jack already immune to death, let their white faces drift from his memory.

Birdsong (1993)

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.

Birdsong (1993)

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

Birdsong (1993)

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

Birdsong (1993)

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