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War weary

A BETTER PLACE by Stephen Daisley (Text Publishing, $37.99)

The old story is at once shocking and familiar to those, like novelist Stephen Daisley, who grew up in the decades immediately after World War II. We know about Crete, Egypt and Italy through images of paratroopers, mateship, people being shot and blown up filtered through black-and-white movies and Commando comics. Even those

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