ill (b/w, col), p.50.non-fictionA descriptive and pictorial history of the Panther tankarmoured warfare - germany - history, panther tank

ill (b/w, col), p.49.non-fictionA descriptive and pictorial history of the Panzer IV tankarmoured warfare - germany - history, panzer iv

ill (b/w, col), p.49.non-fictionA descriptive and pictorial history of the Sturmgeschutz III in action (STUG) anti tank and infantry support vehiclearmoured warfare - germany - history, sturmgeschutz iii

ill (b/w, col), p.49.non-fictionA descriptive and pictorial history of German railway gunsarmoured warfare - germany - history, german railway guns

ill (b/w, col), p.49.non-fictionA descriptive and pictorial history of the Sherman tankarmoured warfare - united states - history, sherman tank

ill (b/w,col), p.49.non-fictionA descriptive and pictorial history of the Stuart light tankarmoured warfare - united states - history, stuart light tanks

ill (b/w, col), p.49.non-fictionA descriptive and pictorial history of the PzKpfw 38 (t) light tankarmoured warfare - germany - history, pzkpfw 38 (t)

ill (b/w, col), p.49.non-fictionA descriptive and pictorial history of the T-34 tankarmoured warfare - soviet union - history, t-34 tank

ill (b/w, col), p.49.non-fictionA descriptive and pictorial history of the SdKfz 251 armoured vehiclearmoured warfare - germany - history, sdkfz 251

ill (b/w, col), p.49.non-fictionA descriptive and pictorial history of the PzKpfw IIIarmoured warfare - germany - history, pzkpfw iii

bibliography, p.368.fictionIn this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks has collected the best fiction about war in the 20th century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier's experience from call-ups battle and comradship to leave, hospital and trauma in later life. Truly international in scope, this anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Issac Babel and Ernest Hemingway , Heinrich Boll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O'Brian Julian Barnes and Louis de Barnieres. Together they form a powerful and moving evocation of the horrors of war.fiction - 20th century, war stories

ill (b/w), p.208fictionA young soldier with the Canadian forces questions the meaning of heroism, of truth, and of good and evil as he describes life in the trenches during World War I. world war 1914-1918 - fiction, war stories

p.320.fictionPI Nate Heller of Chicago is hired by the widow of Senator Huey Long, a Louisiana politician, to find out for insurance purposes whether the bullet that killed him was fired by an assassin, therefore murder, or did he die in crossfire when his own bodyguards opened fire, therefore an accident. The truth, Heller learns, is far more sinister. huey long - assassination - fiction, louisiana - assassination - fiction

p.607.fictionThe fire dream captures the depth and essence of the Vietnam war as no novel has done since Herman Wouk accomplished for World War II. vietnam war 1961-1975 - fiction, war stories

p.227.fictionKien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well - this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years of his life he gave to a senseless war.vietnam war 1961-1975 - fiction, vietnam war 1961-1975 - history

p.101fictionThe discovery of a barracks thief ruins the relationship between three soldiers. Suspicion supplants sympathy, fear of betrayal fosters alienationvietnamese war 1961-1975 - fiction, vitnamese conflict 1961-1975

ill, p.362.non-fictionA collection of short stories on Australian war writing from the Boer war to the Vietnam waraustralian literature - war stories, war literary collections

notes, 350.p.non-fictionThis anthology reveals the many ways in which going to war has formed a cultural bridge between Australia and the world. From the Sudan in 1885 to Afghanistan in 2001, the connection of war to travel is illustrated in the observations of many writers.war and literature - australia, travel writing - military - australia

Index, Notes, ill (b/w), p.258.non-fictionThis book explores the propagandist tendency in Australian war writing in promoting nationalist tendencies.war and literature - australia, literary criticism - australia

ill, p.113.One of C. J. Dennis's most poignant books of verse, Digger Smith recalls a singing soldier from The Moods of Ginger Mick, who returns from Gallipoli to become the country neighbour of Doreen and the Bloke (The Sentimental Bloke). In true Dennis style it is told with wisdom, humour and pathos. australia - military - history - poetry, australia - poetry

ill, p.197.non-fictionThe role of Percy Toplis in the Etaples mutiny of 1917 and his subsequent adventures.etaples mutiny 1917, british army - mutiny - 1917

p.394.fictionWhen war was declared on 3 September 1939, No. 1 Squadron was posted to France to help the BEF halt the German advance. The Squadron is hardy, intensely loyal, and at the beginning of the campaign, hugely successful in shooting down German planes when they are often outnumbered. Then the offensive begins in earnest, the losses mount and the horror of the retreat to Dunkirk gives a whole new meaning to the concept of total war.Told through the experiences of an English pilot, Kit Curtis, who dreams of gallant deeds and personal glory, and a more battle hardened American, Ossie Wolf, this is 'Band of Brothers' for the RAF, a no-holds-barred, action packed war thriller.world war 1939-1945 - britain - aerial operations - fiction, fighter pilots - fiction

p.157.fictionThe Bridge on the River Kwai" tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was ordered back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel refuses, as it is against regulations for officers to work with other ranks. war stories - fiction, burma-siam railway - fiction

77.p.fictionFictional account of the Australian Light Horse in Palestineworld war 1914-1918 - fiction, short stories - australia

map, p.295.fictionAfter his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.woeld war 1939-1945 - aerial operations - fiction, war stories - juvenile fiction

p.254fictionIn the summer of 1940, the Battle of Britain rages in the skies over southern England. Nineteen-year-old Pilot Officer Peter Stuyckes arrives at RAF Westhill and is immediately put to the test. Based on the author's own service as an RAF Flight Engineer, Squadron Airborne unfolds over one unforgettable week that summer, depicting the work of the many ground crew and other staff with intensity and brilliance as they support the Few in their fight against the Luftwaffe. world war 1939-1945 - aerial operations - fiction, battle of britain - fiction

p.253.fictionA fictional account of aerial warfare on the Western front in the first world warworld war 1914-1918 - aerial operations - fiction, aerial warfare - fiction

p.317.fictionOn an island in the outer Hebrides, a British guided weapons unit battles the elements during a raging polar storm. Underlying the ordeal is the mystery of Major Braddock, who disappeared on the island 22 years before. english fiction, psychological fiction

p.288.fictionA fictional account of the Cowra break out of 1944.prisoners of war - japan - fiction, cowra break-out - fiction

p.426fictionThe year young Australians sailed off to war in high hopes of adventure, only to find themselves faced with disaster. The tragedy and violence of Gallipoli provide the climax to this very personal, moving and surprisingly romantic story. With remarkable skill and in achingly beautiful prose, Roger McDonald takes the reader on an archetypal Australian journey which parallels the nation's progress from its country childhood, through the adolescent exuberance of its young cities, to initiation on one of the world's ancient battlefields. It is a vital journey, haunted by menace and disillusionment, one embedded in our national mythology. This astonishing first novel, published to great critical acclaim in 1979 and since then selling over 100,000 copies, tells the story of two boys from the bush, the thoughtful and awkward Walter and his knowing friend Billy Mackenzie, and their girls Frances and Diana. Together they discover a future which seems full of promise, drawing them into the exciting turmoil of passion and war. But theirs is a fateful alliance, in a world all too quickly passing, with an outcome they never could have foreseen.gallipoli campaign - fiction, world war 1914-1918 - fiction