Good-Bye, Susette single work   short story   war literature  
Issue Details: First known date: 1922... 1922 Good-Bye, Susette
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Tending to the graves of the war dead, an Australian soldier and the young French girl he has fallen in love with reach a tiny grave. As the girl tearfully reveals that it belongs to her child, the soldier comes to realise how she must have suffered at the hands of the Germans who invaded her village.

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