One of Ours
by Willa Cather
513 pages~9 hrs
“To find himself, he had to leave everything he knew for a world at war.”
Trapped by the suffocating expectations of life on a Nebraska farm, Claude Wheeler yearns for a purpose that his provincial world refuses to offer. When the drums of the Great War begin to beat, he embarks on a transformative journey from the quiet prairies to the chaotic battlefields of France to find his true self.
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