The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
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Author: Mark TwainDrawings: John Groth
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1984-02-25
ISBN: 0060911131
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Harper Colophon
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Book Review: Deserves to be read again and again
Summary: 5 Stars
Within every prayer for victory also lies a prayer for the enemy's defeat. That doesn't just mean redrawing some national boundary on a map. It also means the horror of broken bodies on the battlefield, the devastation of families and nations, and a toll in suffering that can not be calculated.
When some Sunday sermon invokes a prayer for victory, Twain walks a mysterious stranger into the church. He explains the duality, then invokes the other half the the prayer: poverty, death, and loss affecting all the millions in the defeated nation, as only Twain at his bitter best can describe it.
This short story deserves a book to itself, and Groth's stark drawings only accent its message. Once read, it can not be forgotten.
-- wiredweird
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