The River and the Smoke
The first time Thomas Blackwood heard Clara sing, the shelling had not yet started. It was July 1, 1916—Somm's first day. The air above the battlefield smelled of cordite and wet earth, and the ambulance wagons had been running since dawn, carrying men whose legs were gone and men whose faces were gone and men who were still whole but would never be whole again. Thomas worked in a tent hospital...
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