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First published 2015
Copyright © Brian Dillon, 2015
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Cover design by Leo Nickolls
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ISBN: 978-1-844-88282-3
I. The Gunpowder Archipelago
II. To the Heart of Things
III. Blown All to Nothing
Note on Sources
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Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
