Death and Compassion JUVENILE FICTION / Royalty 1853–1933)

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In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation not only gives voice to those Americans who served in the “forgotten war” but chronicles the larger personal and collective consequences of waging war the American way

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Death and Compassion JUVENILE FICTION / Royalty 1853–1933)Traces the literary history of the elephant, and its role in South Africa's cultural imaginary Elephants are in dire straits again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. This is at the same