The works are instructive, often beautiful and occasionally thrilling.

这些精美绝伦的展品颇具启发性，有的甚至令人震撼。

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From Homer to Norman Mailer, the novelist and Vietnam veteran chooses books that tell the 'numbing, confusing, occasionally thrilling' truth about combat.

越战老兵、小说家卡尔·马兰蒂斯选了几本书，从荷马到诺曼·梅勒，告诉你关于战争“麻木、混乱、有时惊险”的真相。

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Life is just like an old time rail journey: delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed.

人生就像是早期的火车之旅：误点、脱轨、烟雾、尘埃、煤渣加上颠簸，只有偶尔点缀著美丽的景象和刺激的加速。

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Though his thought can be slapdash and hasty, it is at least earnest, intensely argued, and occasionally thrilling in its leaps and transitions.

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