The Unknown Civilian by Antony Owen Ciaran Berry It is a triumph of

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combining an artisanal virtuosity with passion

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The Unknown Civilian by Antony Owen Ciaran Berry It is a triumph ofThere is no doubting the profound intent and varied ambition of this collection. Caught in the withering and implacable gaze of war, Owen refuses to flinch. Like a surgeon intent on the truer cause, he peels away wars more overt skin to expose, with a disarming unsentimentally, some of the less obvious aspects of conflicts anatomy. Mario Petrucci Feathers and scalpels, I thought, reading this collection on the train between Lancashire meetings about