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First published in 1931, The Cross of Carl is a book describing trench warfare with a visionary intensity. It is a masterpiece of the imagination, and one of the most terrifying books you will ever read. The Times Literary Supplement review, on 16 July 1931, called the book “A war allegory” that, “brings back the ugly side of war psychology; it is a description of one of the ‘corpse factories’ of legend – an unbearably ghastly description... This record of what the author himself describes as “an abnormal pathological process” induced by the psychic perturbations of the War, is put forward in the belief that the experience may foreshadow some sort of development in the collective consciousness of mankind.” It was foresight, in a way, but of something more horrible, which would be the Nazi holocaust of World War II.

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Walter Owen was a poet and translator who settled in Buenos Aires. Blinded in one eye, he was not allowed to serve in the British army, and, while in a sanitorium, he experienced a vision of trench warfare of hallucinatory intensity, believing himself to be possessed by the spirit of a slaughtered soldier. He became one of the foremost translators of Argentine literature – as the biography included in this edition shows, and his English version of The Gaucho Martin Fierro by Jose Hernandez (the Argentine Homer) is well known. His other fiction, More Things in Heaven, published in 1947, tells the story of a case of Spontaneous Human Combustion.

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