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They were torn from their ordinary lives... They were thrown into the bloody mud of war... Once they were young men learning to live and think. Now they are cannon fodder. Soldiers. And now what they learn is how to survive and not think. Thousands upon thousands will lie forever in the fields of the First World War. Thousands upon thousands of those who return will yet regret not having fallen together with the dead. But for now — on the Western Front, all is still quiet...
