Sweating Blood Keith Michael Baker New from Will Shortz and

New from Will Shortz and The New York Times

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He is also the author

Sweating Blood Keith Michael Baker New from Will Shortz andFirst published in French in 1893, Sweating Blood describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of horror and inhumanity from the pen of the Pilgrim of the Absolute, L on Bloy. Writing with blood, sweat, tears and moral outrage, Bloy drew from anecdotes, news reports and his own experiences as a guerilla fighter to compose a fragmented depiction of the 1870 Franco Prussian War, told with equal measures of hatred and pathos, and alternating between