![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a stunning event on page 483 out of a total of 503 pages in my paperback edition. ![]() And then: “Far beyond thought, the resolution came to him and he found his arms, still raised, begin to spread open.” The German soldier in turn sees “this wild-eyed figure, half-demented” and without knowing why “found that he had opened his own arms in turn, and the two men fell upon each other’s shoulders, weeping at the bitter strangeness of their human lives.” He then aggressively raises fighting fists. At the sight of the German uniform, Stephen instinctively reaches for his revolver, which isn’t there. Near the end of Sebastian Faulks’ World War I novel Birdsong, the stoic, lonely protagonist Stephen Wraysford comes face to face with a German soldier who has pulled him from the depths of a collapsed tunnel, saving his life. ![]()
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