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Title: Silly, misleading, and offensive trash.
Review: The number of absurd coincidences, cliffhangers, and deus ex machinas required to sustain the plot of this boy scout daydream would challenge anyone's ability to suspend disbelief. I would rate it as slightly less credible than the Wizard of Oz. This silliness spoiled it for me, though I might have loved it if I had run across it at the age of 12. This book does not give any kind of reliable view of World War I. It is a fairytale. Also despite what other reviewers have said, I found the South African apartheid-style racism pervasive and offensive. This kind of thought was no more acceptable in 1916 than it is today, as Gandhi made so eloquently clear at the time.
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