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What event in Sorley MacLean's personal life greatly impacted his professional writing?

  • His service in the North African Campaign

  • His move to America

  • His conversion to Buddhism

  • His winning of the lottery

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His service in the North African Campaign greatly impacted Sorley MacLean's professional writing. The campaign exposed MacLean to the horrors of war and death, and it inspired him to write about the human cost of conflict. MacLean's poetry often deals with themes of loss, grief, and the futility of war.
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