BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/pawnsplightofOObarn ,ir it 9 J ft •M*: PAWNS I 1 4< PETER BARNES PAWNS THE PLIGHT OE THE CITIZEN-SOLDIER ALFRED KNOPF NEW YORK A. 1972 THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. © Copyright 1971 by Peter Barnes All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. ISBN: 0-394-43616-4 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-136344 Manufactured in the United States of America FIRST EDITION FOR VALERIE, REGINA, AND LEO * V I t t •• 4