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a young voice asked from the corridor . ' We ' ve caught one ! He was shooting .
From the window . Shooting us in the back , son - of - a - bitch . Only now did it
occur to me that I was wearing my shabby student uniform and that , according to
...
a young voice asked from the corridor . ' We ' ve caught one ! He was shooting .
From the window . Shooting us in the back , son - of - a - bitch . Only now did it
occur to me that I was wearing my shabby student uniform and that , according to
...
Page 32
I was taken out into the yard , the young man prodding me in the back with his
rifle . The yard was full of Red Guards . They had broken into a store room and
were dragging out crates to build a barricade across the Boulevard . ' What ' s all
this ...
I was taken out into the yard , the young man prodding me in the back with his
rifle . The yard was full of Red Guards . They had broken into a store room and
were dragging out crates to build a barricade across the Boulevard . ' What ' s all
this ...
Page 147
Young , cheerful daredevils , the soldiers had arrived with their smell of battle ,
their tattered red flags , their dashing songs and their revolutionary ardour . They
had come and gone , but long afterwards a romantic breath of revolution was still
...
Young , cheerful daredevils , the soldiers had arrived with their smell of battle ,
their tattered red flags , their dashing songs and their revolutionary ardour . They
had come and gone , but long afterwards a romantic breath of revolution was still
...
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Contents
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
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