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Ghosts of the Great War

Four years of mass death brought the dead home. Soldiers retreating from Mons said angels had held the line, a dead pilot walked the mess at Montrose, a German U-boat crew kept seeing their drowned second officer on deck, and a flier killed at Tadcaster appeared to his roommate at Scampton at the hour he died.

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August 23, 1914December 7, 1918