"They were fine men at first, some of them giants. Now they are boys—mere infants, one might say! . . . Conscripts, one might say also; but that they are without the conscription in England. Food for the Hungry One all the same. For Death is a glutton, Monsieur, not a gourmet.By RICHARD DEHAN43 min
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