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People like christopher columbus, isaac newton, florence nightingale, thomas edison, nancy astor, charles lindbergh, amy johnson, edmund hilary and neil armstrongtheir. Cobbs title is taken from english poet charles grays 1751 poem, elegy written in a country churchyard. Paths of glory is a 1957 american antiwar film directed by stanley kubrick, based on the novel of the same name by humphrey cobb. With paths of glory 1958, director stanley kubrick established himself not simply as the leading commercial filmmaker of his generation, but a worldclass talent as well. Project gutenberg offers 61,525 free ebooks to download. Humphrey cobbs protagonists are frenchmen during the first world war whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and terrible turn when they are ordered to assault. Based on a novel by humphrey cobb, this tragic tale of world war i was immediately compared on its release to such classics as the big parade and all quiet on the western front.
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