Word: curlews
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...boys are dazzled with the glory of war: "You don't think it will end before we're old enough to get in it, do you?" When the school starts up an army cadet corps, with uniforms and rifles, they are ecstatic. In his daydreams, young John Curlew shoots down a squadron of Nazis in his plane, cleans out a machine-gun nest with a single grenade, gets the Victoria Cross from Winston Churchill, and wins the adulation of the rest of the gang. In reality the other boys despise him for his friendship with Mark Stein...