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war-office-injury
Tensing's injury, caused by a typewriter accident despite his War Office desk job, highlights the unpredictable dangers of wartime life away from the front lines.
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Blackout (2011)Connie Willis
Chapter 48
In this chapter, Mike Davis, an injured American war correspondent, meets fellow patient Hugh Tensing in a hospital during World War II. They form a cautious partnership to secretly exercise and hasten their recoveries by taking turns guarding each other from hospital staff. Tensing is discharged unexpectedly, and Mike soon encounters another patient, Private David Hardy, signaling the arrival of the retrieval team Mike had hoped for.