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A HIGHER FORM OF KILLING: Six Weeks in World War I that Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
by Diana Preston
Bloomsbury Press, Sydney Hardcover: 288 pages Price: AUD$38.40
Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel
Mention the horrors of World War I, and most people identify trench warfare, and the sheer number of casualties. Author Diana Preston, an Oxford-educated historian whose previous works include Wilful Murder: the Sinking of the Lusitania (reviewed by this rev…

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