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Mommy, Please Don't Cry is a book of love and comfort for mothers who have experienced the deep sorrow of losing a child. Serene illustrations frame gentle words that describe heaven from a child's perspective. With room for the reader's personal reflections at the end of the book, every page is a poignant gift of hope and healing. "Our stories are all different, but our pain is the same," writes Linda. "We are mothers who will forever grieve the loss of our children. And yet, there is hope for our troubled souls."
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strongly recommended.......2007-08-20
every time i open this book, i cry. i feel like my little girl is talking to me from heaven. i highly recommend this book to any grieving mother that has lost a little one. it was so good i even bought one for my own mother!!!
This helps.......2007-07-13
I lost my son earlier this year and bought this book to give me some idea of what heaven must be like from a childrens view. When I am low or sad I read this and it makes it just a little bit easier, reading that he is in a magical place as described. It is beautifully done and a wonderfull tool to help you through the grieveing process.
Great book..........2007-07-09
I bought this book for myself after loosing our first baby, Cameron at the end of my first trimester, just 3 weeks ago today. And, I must say that I did indeed cry while reading it, but the simple words of this book have already started healing the deep wounds in my heart. The illustrations are beautiful, and I would recommend this to anyone who has lost an infant.
This book brought me Peace and Hope After my Miscarriage.......2007-05-15
Mommy Please Don't Cry
By Linda DeYmaz
Illustrations by Sabrina Smith
After giving three kids, and three great pregnancies, it was a shock to me when I showed up for a normal second trimester checkup only to discover that my baby might be dead.
I had no signs of miscarriage at all. No bleeding, no cramping. My OB only did the ultrasound to see if there might be twins (since I was getting up there in age.)
When he turned the screen away from my view, my heart sank. There was no heart beat.
What followed were two weeks of more tests and ultrasounds, and eventually a D & C. We had lost our precious baby.
That was probably one of the darkest times in my life, and it was difficult to get out of bed and tale care of my three children. I cried a lot, and I wasn't sure how to get past the pain.
Though there is no easy way to recover from a miscarriage, one book that brought me hope was Mommy Please Don't Cry by Linda DeYmaz.
This book is written from the perspective of the lost baby speaking to their mother about the beauty and glory of heaven. It was so comforting to read and cry over the pages of Mommy Please Don't Cry time and time again. It helped heal my heart.
If you have had a miscarriage, or know someone who has, this book is very healing. I strongly encourage you to get a copy, and share the love of Christ with them.
Several years later, I did suffer a second miscarriage, and now have 2 glory babies in heaven waiting on me. And I know that someday, I will hold them, and "our hearts will again beat as one."
Mommy, Please Don't Cry: There Are No Tears In Heaven".......2006-10-29
I have ordered and given away close to a dozen of these. It's an amazing book and touches the heart of a woman at the point she needs it.
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Just what every mother of the bride needs to help her deal with the emotional, logistical, and financial challenges of her daughter's big day!What premarital advice should a mother give the daughter who knows more about sex and stock portfolios than she does? Can the groom's step-grandparents march down the aisle as part of the wedding procession? How can a cousin get ordained on the Internet to perform the ceremony? This witty, brass-tacks survival manual for the 21st-century mother of the bride provides sharp, sensible answers to these and myriad other questions.Hilarious anecdotes and practical advice abound as the lifestyle editor for The Washingtonian shares wise counsel and helpful hints from a mom who's been there as well as chronicles some ill-fated nuptials (as a primer for what not to do). From deciphering the mysteries of wedding food to learning to understand florist-speak, from picking a suitable mother-of-the-bride outfit-without looking like a Red Hot Mama or, worse, your grandmother in lavender and lace-to keeping a sense of humor when some of what can go wrong does, this down-to-earth guide makes a perfect gift for every mother determined to give her daughter the wedding of her dreams.
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The best Mother's book, bride or groom.......2007-04-02
This is easy reading, entertaining and useful. I have shared it with others planning weddings. Her opinions, details and personal thoughts are great.
Laugh out loud cute.......2007-01-25
When our daughter made me a first-time MOB this Christmas, she presented me with this book. While I enjoy good humor, only the James Harriot books (All Creatures Great and Small etc) had actually made me laugh out loud. Many passages in this book have had me laughing so hard I have literally cried. In addition, our execution of the Mother-Daughter Pre-Nup has saved me from unmitigated grief with my daughter about the dinner entres (among other things) at the venue she and her fiance have chosen which features nouvelle northern Italian cuisine. We're talking date sauce over pork chops and lemon zested brussel sprouts and leg of lamb with garbanzo beans here folks.
Amid a great deal of humor Leslie Milk dispenses pithy nuggets of great advice. This book would be a welcome volume especially for MOBs who have or need a sense of humor. MOGs would enjoy it too.
Great Advice for a First Time M.O.B.!.......2006-11-10
I loved this humorous, warm and loving book. It gave me insight to what I could expect, and it was always right on! The writing was sweet without being "sappy" and the advice was sage. If you are a Mother of the Bride, you will need this.
Wedding book for mom's of brides........2006-03-09
This book is the best! Leslie Milk is clever, funny and extremely informative. I not only learned more from this book than the more formal bridal book I purchased but had some good laughs too. She makes such sense and covers everything you need to know. Actually my daughter read it, my husband read it after hearing my many references to it, and I ended up ordering more copies to give as gifts. This is a must have book for mom's of brides and actually brides too.
Fantasic: For both mothers.......2006-01-05
I orginally bought this book for my mother (bride's mother) but it was just so cute and clever that I purchased it for the Groom's mother. For Brides: It imforms your mothers of their role without hurting their feelings. My mom read it in 2 days and she said she really connected with it and her role in my wedding. But in a nice, none confrontational way.
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Mother-daughter meltdown is the stuff of which therapists' couches are filled, whether your mom is the kind that makes you want to get drunk five minutes after picking her up at the airport or the kind who you call twice a day just to hear her voice, chances are your relationship needs a little adjusting.
The chapter "Mother: The Best Travel Agent for Guilt Trips" enlightens us on the importance of nursing a strong sense of self while setting boundaries on mother-daughter time. "Conscious Parenting: Minimizing Mama Drama in the Next Generation" is an eye-opener for daughters who thought they were doing a better job with their own offspring. For her lessons on love and forgiveness, author Denise McGregor deserves to be named the Dr. Spock of parent-care.
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You Mean I'm Not Crazy!.......2007-04-11
This book was so helpful that I passed it on to a friend. I have actually used advice suggested by the author and my life with my mom has improved significantly. It truly helped in that my mother has to break the apron strings and I have to take the responsiblity to grow up. If nothing else, this book puts boundaries in perspective. I am normally reserved about self-help books, but as a practicing mental health professional, this one will become one of my more recommended to clients.
helpful book.......2006-09-29
I'm writing a review even though I haven't completely finished reading the book in case my review helps someone else. This book is very helpful. The author doesn't mention a lot of pscyhological terms but rather tries to help you understand why you mother is doing what she is doing and provides you with tips on how to balance the relationship so you are not constantly stressed and discouraged. She encourages you not to "divorce" your mom like some would say but tells you to think about what you want out of the relationship and then work to that goal, often by finding some common ground that you can stand on to related to your mother.
I'm sort of in the midst of some major issues with my mother (again) and the one thing I am struggling with are feeling of guilt and isolation and the "why me" mindset as it relates to my mother. Wondering why I can't have a good relationship with my mother like I see other women have with their mothers. I feel further isolated since I don't have a sister or an aunt and my grandmother has passed so there's not even another woman in my family that I can share my feelings with to help me feel better. This book provides lots of examples that help you realize you are not alone and that it is possible to not be super close to your mother and still be a good person.
There is one thing I struggled with that the author says. She says that your mother isn't out to hurt you and she even pointed to examples of child abuse and extreme cases where mothers have killed their children and she still says that those mothers weren't out to hurt their children and that their actions were about their issues and so forth (please read the book for the exact wording on this topic). Anyway I disagreed with that because I think sometimes mothers can wish to hurt their children, consiously and unconsciously I think sometimes mothers are jealous, resentful, unhappy with their own lives and just mean and that they do want to hurt their children. Do I think they may regret it after the fallout of their actions? Yes. Do I think they also have times or moments where they love their children? Yes. But I just felt like when the author said they don't want to hurt you it was almost excusing the behavior and saying that your mother really loves you no matter what and that any bad thing is really not to hurt you and I just don't think I believe that...but that is my opinion.
Let me say again that the book is wonderful and offers great insight in dealing with a problem that can make you feel very sad and lonely. It's worth it if you are having an issue...perhaps you can find some peace in the pages of this book.
I have read many mother/daughter books.......2006-07-09
but this one is the best so far, even topping Deborah Tannen's helpful one ("You're Wearing That?"). What I especially found so helpful about this book is that it isn't laden with anecdotes. Instead Denise McGregor has insightful explanations for mothers' motivations, daughters' responses, and how to understand and heal these areas. She also has a deeply spiritual ( not religious) undertone that I found very calming and peaceful. Denise is an excellent writer and knows how to explain even the most complicated issues in such a way that I felt I could understand my relationship with my mom in a whole new way. For so many years I felt alone, and that I was the only one feeling so much guilt when it came to my mom, and Denise's book is so enlightening. I realize that not only am I not a freak but that it is a really common issue with most mothers and daughters, and Denise offers beautiful, excellent advice on how to deal positively and release guilt.
I can not stress how great this book is. Like I said, I have read many many many, and now I feel like this is it. I do not have to read any more mother daughter books ever again. This one book has set me on the road to healing and improving my relationship with my mom. I hope it can help you too.
A great resource for daughters AND their mothers.......1999-05-11
This book provided a lot of helpful information for mending estranged mother-daughter relationships. It also offers suggestions for improving existing relationships. Mother-daughter relationships are very complicated and the guidelines outlined in Ms. McGregor's book assist with shaping the relationship into something that is appreciated by both the mother and the daughter.
Every Mother and Daughter should read this book!!.......1999-02-05
What an incredible source of inspiration!! I had the great pleasure to attend one of Ms. McGregor's seminars and found her not only to be a warm and caring person but a tremendous source of strength and knowledge that has helped me mend my relationship with my mother. Mama Drama is a must have in any household!! For you men out there, if you care about the women in your lives, make the emotional investment and get a copy for your mothers, sisters, daughters and wives! An absolute winner!! Thank you Denise for changing my life!!
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- Mothers Who Cry in the Night : The Ultimate Gift of Love
- Extraordinary son, extraordinary mother, a tale of unconditional love.
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In 1997, Rev. Dr. Betsie H. Poinsett experienced something no parent should have to - the death of her only child, her 21-year-old "Indigo" son, Bennett. Throughout his short life he seemed to walk to the beat of a different drummer. As Betsie would awaken in the middle of the night with feelings of helplessness, knowing that his behavior was spiraling out of control, the only thing she could do in those wee dark hours would be to go to her computer and start writing to relieve her fears. Thus, Mothers Who Cry in the Night, originated. It takes the reader through those long lonely nights, giving them strategies to turn these out of control feelings around, and to learn how to rebuild themselves to understand that God and Love are the foundation that they can constantly return to when these dark nights of the soul envelope them.
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Mothers Who Cry in the Night : The Ultimate Gift of Love.......2006-03-16
I have only read about 50 pages and already this book has touched my life in a profound way. Any mother or parent who has had to deal with a challenging child with find great comfort and wisdom in these pages.
Extraordinary son, extraordinary mother, a tale of unconditional love........2006-01-10
The true story of the relationship between mother and son is told throughout this book, along with many helpful and insightful tools in spirituality. The heart of the book is a deep, unconditional love, which the reader can feel and learn from. The lessons of letting go, finding inner strength, and finding balance in any dynamic relationship are some of the core things I enjoyed in the book. Bennett's poetry and some of his essence is also captured in the extraordinary tale that he left for so many to learn and heal from. A wonderful, healing, magical book.
Understanding our lives.......2005-05-22
"Mothers who cry in the night" is a phenomenal read. It starts as a journal, looking for answers to the confusing enigma that is her child. As the answers make themselves known, so does the free spirit that is Bennett. We, the readers, take a swirling ride that is not only in the life of Betsie the adoring, saddened mother but also that of Bennett, a life-force uncomfortable in these earthly surroundings, searching for his own reality, his propose. It not only helped me to have a better understanding of the correlation between genius and addiction (self medicating), but also to better understand my own purpose in this life and what will come after. We are all the same journey and it has no conclusion, only growth.
Nanette Cookson
A must read for parents with challenging children.......2005-04-19
Mothers Who Cry in the Night by Rev. Dr. Betsie Poinsett is a must read for anyone who has felt the frustration of caring for an unhappy child. The book takes the reader on the journey of life with a child who doesn't fit in, can not find happiness and causes much worry and frustration for himself and his parents. It is a beautiful story of love that eventually transcends the
physical and emotional pain to find a place of peace and understanding. Dr. Poinsett easily relates her heart felt feelings and shares the turmoil of raising a child that seems to be of a different world. I recommend Mothers Who Cry in the Night to all mothers or anyone who loves children.
What a Healing Experience She Walked through.......2004-11-29
This book made me laugh... made me cry...and made me want to send out prayers to all the Mothers that must experience this pain. Rev. Dr. Betsie Poinsett has walked through the nightmares of raising an Indigo child. This Indigo child finally proved to be a Master in disguise. This is a teaching/learning/healing experience that will touch you deeply. I highly recommend this book
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A Mother's Cry
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A Mother's Cry by Kerri J. Busteed is a story of about Rachel Spielbauer, a woman who so desperately feels the need for attention. Her entire life she has felt neglected and always had to find her own way to get the attention she felt she deserved. Rachel grew up to be an amazing woman who co-founded her own magazine and married a successful pilot for a commercial airline. Shortly after getting married she became pregnant. Rachel felt her life would now be perfect, until her heart was broken after the birth of her child. Once her life starts to get back to normal she begins to feel lonely and depressed. She needs to find a way to get attention and unfortunately for her child, finds that by having a child who is sick the staff at the hospital gives her the attention she so desperately desires. How far will Rachel go to get attention?
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A Must Read!!.......2005-12-30
The story is about a mother who brings harm to her son, Dakota. The mother has a medical condition that causes the situation. The author does a great job explaining the medical portion of it while making it a very touching, interesting, and heartfilled story. This is a must read book! I couldn't put it down.
A Mother's Cry.......2005-12-20
This is a very compelling, well-written book from a first-time author. The story follows one woman's journey from childhood to motherhood. Rachel is a victim of circumstance as a child. One who is from an affluent family with professional working parents. Often her days are long and lonely. She discovers at an early age how to get attention and carries that need for attention into adulthood as she becomes a mother. The story tugs at your heart as you follow her child's ordeals as Rachel seeks attention. I would recommend this book to others.
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Emotional story........2006-03-29
I grew up in Camdenton, Mo. and briefly knew Greg Swift in school. The last time I saw Billie Dyer shortly before he killed the kids he was throwing snakes at us, as my friend and I swam in the lake. He was evil then and he is still evil, I'm sure. I hope he is still in prison! He should never be allowed out!
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Richard Hall examines the origins, the enactment and the resolution of the Balkan Wars, during which the Ottoman Empire fought a Balkan coalition of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia, that collapsed in 1913. Based on archival as well as published diplomatic and military sources, this book provides the first comprehensive perspective on the diplomatic and military aspects of the Balkan Wars. It demonstrates that, because of the diplomatic problems raised and the military strategies and tactics pursued to resolve those problems, the Balkan Wars were the first phase of the greater and wider conflict of the First World War.
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the best book in English on the subject.......2001-11-29
I've just finished writing a book about the Ottoman Army's participation in the Balkan Wars. Consequently, I've read (or scanned) almost every book ever written in English, German, Turkish, and French about the Balkan Wars.
Dr. Hall's book is the only book written in English which lays out the flow of events in an understandable format that links the various theaters together. Nobody in the past eighty years has ever done a better job in explaining the military side of this war. If you only read a single book on this subject - this is it.
The challenge of writing a balanced book on this subject is extremely difficult due to the problem of access to available sources and the problem of fluency in multiple (and uncommon) languages. Dr. Hall has done a creditable job in crafting a capstone book that captures the overall strategic picture of the Balkans in 1912/1913. While some readers may find criticisms (maps, editing, use of mainly Bulgarian sources, etc.) this should not obscure what the author has achieved.
I enjoyed the book and I refered to it frequently while writing my own book when I neeeded to fall back on a meaningful context and framework of understanding. Finally, "The Balkan Wars 1912-1913" will leave you hungry for more information about this important war. I hope that it will stimulate interest in a long neglected subject. It's worth the money!
Good but flawed synthesis.......2001-04-21
This is a readable brief account of a series of conflicts about which far too little has been written in English, which should serve non-Balkan specialists well. But it falls considerably short of what one would like, even for a book of 176 pages. There are an embarrassing number of editing lapses (e.g., repetition of the sentence beginning "Negotiations..." on p. 69) and typos, for which the publisher bears some responsibility. Forms of proper names are mostly Bulgarian (with inconsistencies), with no cross-reference to, say, the usual Yugoslav spelling of "Pashich" and rendering of Turkish names, when they are given at all, without dotless i's, etc. Previous reviewers have commented on the grossly inadequate maps; the photo on the cover of the paperback edition whets my appetite for more illustrations, which are completely lacking. Anyone with access to a large public or university library should look for old literature on the war, such as Hermenegild Wagner's _With the Victorious Bulgarians_ (1913), which has very good maps of the Thracian theater.
Hall depends heavily on Slavic sources on the wars, especially Bulgarian ones, which he has thorough control of, but the results are some quite idiosyncratic casualty figures. (The Turkish General Staff's official history of the war, _Balkan harbi_, is cited nowhere, presumably because the author doesn't read Turkish.) The Serbian army's casualties seem far too small, considering that they took every Turkish position by direct assault (e.g., less than 4,000 Serb casualties for the battle of Kumanovo, as opposed to 12,000 Turkish losses). If the Turks had simply retreated instantly, the low casualties would seem understandable, but the Ottoman casualties given for the Macedonian theater are quite high, so one might conclude either that Serbian casualties were greatly underplayed or that the progress of the battle is totally misrepresented. The Turkish casualty figure of 100,000 for both theaters seems incredibly high (though Edward Erickson's _Ordered to Die_ , by an author who knows Turkish sources, gives a far more astounding figure, 250,000.)
Hall is addicted to military and diplomatic second-guessing, which grows tiresome by the end of the book. Though he puts his finger on the more consequential faux pas (the inability of the Russian government to arbitrate Balkan League conflicts, the confusion in Sofia at the opening of the 2nd Balkan War), I would prefer analysis of why errors were made to shoulda-coulda. I would also question Hall's understanding of cholera (which rivaled combat as a source of death); it was most likely not spread by armies, but by soldiers' repeated use of untreated water-hence its reoccurrence in eastern Thrace.
Above all, even for a short book, one would like more on the human rather than strictly political consequences of the war. Virtually nothing is said of the fate of the millions of ethnic Turks and Slavic-speaking Muslims trapped in non-Muslim states as a result of the Balkan Wars. Maybe Hall himself will someday write a more complete book on the wars (and, I hope, get better editorial support).
Fills a gap in 20th Century European History.......2001-02-26
Most students of modern Europe will have learned something of the Balkan Wars, those two localized conflicts involving Turkey which occurred on the eve of, and were among the causes of, World War I. But few studies of 20th century Europe, or even of the Great War and its causes, provide more than mere mention of these obscure wars. Richard Hall goes far towards remedying the problem in this concise (143 pp., 165 pp. with endnotes and bibliography) study.
Hall covers much of the basic ground: why the wars occurred; who was allied with whom and why; the size, training, armaments and disposition of the competing forces; the strategy and tactics of the campaigns; and, a succinct explanation of the results. Hall also appears well-equipped to analyze these wars. In addition to relying on contemporaneous accounts by French, German, British and American observers, Hall also cites numerous works in Serbo-Croation and Bulgarian. Perhaps one reason why there has never appeared a good summary of the Balkan Wars is that a command of several languages is needed in order to write a reliable one. Except for Greek and Turkish sources, Hall seems to have examined the available primary sources.
Only two criticisms can be fairly lodged against this study. First, while readers will recognize that this work was intended to be rather short ( it forms a part of the Warfare and History series under the general editorship of Jeremy Black), Hall might have spent a little more time integrating the Balkan Wars into the larger picture of instability which characterized early 20th century Europe. How did the Balkan Wars affect the attitudes, if not the alignments, of the Great Powers? Did the Balkan Wars really bring the Great Powers closer to European War? Could a remedy to the competing interests of the countries involved have been fashioned in such a way as to defuse the Balkan powder keg? Hall's study might have dealt with these larger questions more thoroughly.
Of less importance, the text is marred by numerous editing errors and by inadequate maps. I always read history with historical atlases by my side; but none that I own provide good maps of these wars. The publishers missed a real opportunity to remedy this problem with Hall's book; more detailed and well-developed maps would have greatly enhanced the text.
Still, this book goes far towards filling in a significant gap in modern European history and is recommended for students of modern Europe and particularly for those interested in the Balkans or in the origins of the First World War.
"Some damned silly thing in the Balkans".......2001-02-08
As Bismarck is attributed as saying in 1898, "If there ever is another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans."
This book is a diplomatic and military history of the First and Second Balkan wars. It's rather amazing that these local conflicts were not the "damn silly thing" and did not erupt into a wider conflict. It would take Princip's shots at Sarajevo to spread the flames of war to the Great Powers.
Much of the belligerent nations' subsequent diplomatic decisions can be attributed to the events and results of the Balkan Wars. Bulgaria's alliances with Germany in the subsequent two world wars are clearly rooted in the Balkan Wars. Serbia's actions and the Austrian reactions to them were first choreographed during the Balkan Wars - with disastrous consequences in July of 1914.
The book provides excellent background on the early 20th century conflicts which incubated today's controversies regarding Macedonia, Kosovo, and other lingering Balkan animosities.
The author makes the point that in the Balkans, there was almost no pause between these wars and the beginning of the Great War. Many of the belligerents were engaged from 1912 until the Armistice of 1918.
Because of the short time between the end of the Balkan Wars and the beginning of the Great War, the author argues that the military lessons of the Balkan Wars regarding machine guns, quick firing artillery, and aircraft reconnaissance could not be properly absorbed by the military tacticians of the day.
Of particular interest to military historians is the book's description of the Gallipoli campaign during the First Balkan War in which the Turks conducted an amphibious assault against the defending Bulgarians. The Turks were able to make good their lessons learned from their attack when they were in the reverse role of defending against the British and ANZACs in 1915.
The Great Power conferences which finalized the results of the two Balkan wars were like the last symphonies in the Concert of Europe. The Balkan belligerents had to maintain one eye on their patrons among the Great Powers as they pursued their territorial goals. Never again would Great Power diplomatic pressure alone be successful in redrawing the borders of Europe. For example, the birth of the Albanian state as a result of Austrian and Italian interests against those of Serbia and Greece was a major outcome of the First Balkan War.
I could only give this book three stars due to some shortcomings. The maps are simple line drawings and do not provide enough detail to adequately support the text. The author has a habit of "giving away" the results of a battle before his description of the entire event is complete. For example, indicating that control of a road would be critical to an army's eventual retreat before describing the actual battle. Finally, the author has a predilection towards perfect hindsight judgments regarding the belligerents' ways and means.
Overall, a nice and short read on a little documented prelude to the Great War.
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