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Pages are moderately tanned with light foxing to text block edges and within, noticeable dog earing inside. Its themes are the first world war and the young men sent to fight in it the book became a bestseller, some 300,000 copies being sold by the end of 1939. The book became a bestseller, some 300,000 copies being sold by the end of 1939. Raymond s postwar autobiography, please you, draw near, was published in 1969. It tells the story of the lives of briggs parents from their first meeting in 1928 to their deaths in 1971.
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