p.322.fictionThough Tristram is always present as narrator and commentator, the book contains little of his life, only the story of a trip through France and accounts of the four comical mishaps which shaped the course of his life from an early age. Firstly, while still only a homunculus, Tristram's implantation within his mother's womb was disturbed. At the very moment of procreation, his mother asked his father if he had remembered to wind the clock. england - fiction, england - social life and customs

p.236.non-fictionThe author was Professor of Classics at Melbourne University. Preface: 'The following short studies were originally delivered as Lectures before various societies, and subsequently appeared in the columns of the Melbourne 'Argus'. They are here reprinted with such slight revisions as their present collection seemed to render desirable ...' Contents: - Our earliest ancestors and their beliefs - The nature and province of poetry - Literature, Science and Education - Culture and cant - The teachings of history - The teachings of travel - Literary judgment Fergusonliterature - history and criticism, modern literature

p.305fictionIn Mrs Gunns opinion, the best book of its kind in existence on the Lord Buddha.buddhism - fiction, romantic fiction

p.344.fictionA fictional account of the life of Pocahontasindian women - fiction, virginia - history

p.200.Description of various aspects of life in the Royal Navygreat britain - royal navy, royal navy - operations

p.445non-fictionThe voyages of Captain Riesenbergvoyages and travel, seafaring life

p.250.non-fictionEvading prohibition in the United States in the 1930'sprohibition - united states, smuggling - united states

p.342.fictionA fictional record of some of the personal adventures of a typical regiment of Kitchener's army.world war 1914-1918 - fiction, world war 1914-1918 - personal recollections

p.316.non-fictionPersonal recollections of the battles of Ypres and the Somme - sequel to The first hundred thousandworld war 1914-1918 - campaigns - france, world war 1914-1918 - personal recollections

p.293.non-fictionA personal account of the Australians on Gallipoli in 1915.world war 1914-1918 -campaigns - gallipoli, world war 1914-1918 - personal recollections

p.226.The exploits of the Imperial camel corps in the First warworld war 1914-1918 - campaigns - middle east, world war 1914-1918 - personal recollections

p.455.non-fictionPersonal views of the Great War from a self described chroniclerworld war 1914-1918 - personal recollections, world war 1914-1918 - great britain

p.362.non-fictionPersonal views of the Great War from a self described chroniclerworld war 1914-1918 - personal recollections, world war 1914-1918 - great britain

p.343.non-fictionA picture of life in a large military hospital during the First World War.world war 1914-1918 - personal recollections, military hospitals - great britain

p.190.non-fictionA collection of world war one poetryaustralian poetry, world war 1914-1918 - poetry

p.95.non-fictionA collection of World war one ballads and rhymesworld war 1914-1918 - poetry, world war 1914-1918 - songs and music

p.313.non-fictionCollected speeches by Winston Churchillgreat britain - politics and government, world war 1939-1945 - history

p.372.non-fictionA gripping novel of World War I as seen by a German soldier.world war 1914-1918 - fiction, world war 1914-1918 - campaigns - france

p.162.non-fictionViews of former Prime Minister William Hughes on the world situation in the 1930saustralian - foreign relations, australia - history - 20th century

p.188.fictionThe dawn patrol was novelized by Guy Fowler from the first national and vitaphone picture, directed by Howard Hawks and is based on an original story by John Monk Saunders.world war 1914-1918 - fiction, war stories - english

p.372.non-fictionA glossary of military slangworld war 1914-1918 - dictionaries, world war 1914-1918 - slang

p.416.fictionBased on the author's own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys during World War II.Darting back and forth across the icy North Atlantic, Compass Rose played a deadly cat-and-mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying in wait beneath the ocean waves.Packed with tension and vivid descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts, this tale of the most bitter and chilling campaign of the war tells of ordinary men who had to master their own fears before they could face a brutal menace--one which would strike without warning from the deep. world war 1939-1945 - naval operations - britain, world war 1939-1945 - fiction

p.156.fictionA novel based on the adventures of Dr Wassell, of the United States navyworld war 1939-1945 - naval operations - united states, croydon mcalymont wassell

p.143.An account of the war experience as a prisoner by an American war correspondentworld war 1939-1945 - campaigns - north africa, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war

p.64fictionA curious story involving not only the Snow Goose, the Canada-bred wanderer of the airways, but also a couple and their travels.world war 1939-1945 - fiction, world war 1939-1945 - dunkirk evacuation

p.119.non-fictionDescription of life in occupied Francefrance - history - german occupation, occupied france 1940-1945

p.175.non-fictionThe author tells of his imprisonment and escape from British North Borneo, of guerilla warfare in the Philippine archipelago and finally his voyage to Australia.world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war, world war 1939-1945 - escapes

p.233.non-fictionDiary kept by the authors when a prison in Japanese hands.world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - japan

p.188.non-fictionAn analytical study of the Hitlerite and the British orders of civilizationworld war 1939-1945 - political aspects, world war 1939-1945 - history

p.290.Memoirs of an American correspondent in pre-war berlingermany - history - 1933-1943, world war 1939-1945 - personal narratives - united states