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I also liked Enemy Ace, another Kanigher/Kubert team-up, featuring a First World War rittmeister who, while blowing Allied pilots out of the sky, uttered depressed Nordic soliloquies about death, war, death, duty, death, and the fact that his own plane was so fed up with the slaughter that it wanted to kill him.
The Sarge and Me Walter Jon Williams 2007
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I also liked Enemy Ace, another Kanigher/Kubert team-up, featuring a First World War rittmeister who, while blowing Allied pilots out of the sky, uttered depressed Nordic soliloquies about death, war, death, duty, death, and the fact that his own plane was so fed up with the slaughter that it wanted to kill him.
Archive 2007-04-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007
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His rank was that of rittmeister in the hussars, and he had nothing to do but enlist in the cavalry.
Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888
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