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total war, points out a writer in "Truth." Yet one episode, whose factual accuracy I believe to be established, may merit record as evidence that, even in days of battle and sudden death, the comic spirit is still abroad. The story's hero is a British officer who was taken prisoner in the retreat to Dunkirk, escaped from his captors by a bold and lucky stroke, reached the coast and, after bitter privations and endurances, embarked souls in a stranded rowing-boat furnished with a single ar. He made his ge. Famished, wounded, machine-gunned
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