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TIL In March of 1915 four corporals in the French Army were shot by firing squad as an example to the rest of their companies during WWI. The events of the Souain corporals affair inspired the 1935 anti-war novel Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb, later adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick.

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