A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of WarFrom the author of the highly acclaimed Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, a radical rethinking of the nature of war and gender and the illuminating interplay between private suffering and public tragedy. Griffin uses diaries, art, literature, psychology, and historical documents to illustrate the unexpectedly broad range of causes and effects of war. |
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Page 115
... train pulls into a station . The train is full of children . A man in a uniform greets the children warmly as they step off the train . Then the camera cuts to boys and girls who are swimming . The boys and girls race to see who can ...
... train pulls into a station . The train is full of children . A man in a uniform greets the children warmly as they step off the train . Then the camera cuts to boys and girls who are swimming . The boys and girls race to see who can ...
Page 158
... train station and packed into the cars . Then , just two hours before the train was scheduled to leave , Hélène , her son and her husband were pulled from the train . Her husband's papers had been brought by the Swiss consul to the camp ...
... train station and packed into the cars . Then , just two hours before the train was scheduled to leave , Hélène , her son and her husband were pulled from the train . Her husband's papers had been brought by the Swiss consul to the camp ...
Page 310
... train . Is this the train they rode to the camp ? Here , Charlotte confesses that she would rather be crowded uncomfort- ably among strangers than shut up in a room alone with her grandfather . I had this dream years ago and I have ...
... train . Is this the train they rode to the camp ? Here , Charlotte confesses that she would rather be crowded uncomfort- ably among strangers than shut up in a room alone with her grandfather . I had this dream years ago and I have ...
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