But the young sapper was already on his back, the "And the sergeant released the catch of the flare and held it up in his outstretched arm, the niagara of its light pouring off his fist, and stood there for the length of its burn like that. Or, as vividly described in Michael Ondaatje's novel of the war in Europe, "The English Patient," a young Sikh from the Punjab into Michelangelo's SistineĬhapel, on a bomb-disposal mission at night: Of Mount Everest, or an American farm boy into Piccadilly. Military orders might with equal unconcern drop a London clerk into the presence ONE of the uncalculated effects of World War II was the way it turned a generation of young people, conscripts and volunteers, into global explorers without a guidebook. November 1, 1992, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
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