tear-jerking = "profoundly moving"

[Jonathan Lighter]

>From an Amazon.com review in 2000
[
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Voices-World-War-International/product-reviews/0877452644/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1]:
Filled with excellent excerpts of little known works, from plays to prose,
and a tear-jerking introduction that captures the hopelessness of the
millions of men that died in the Great War.


JL

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