p.301.fictionHailed by Eliot, Pound, Lawrence and Hemingway, and based on the author's own experiences, The Middle Parts of Fortune is a breathtaking account of the Great War and the men who fought it.world war 1914-1918 - fiction, great war -fiction

p.155fictionA disturbing novel of army life and war in South East Asia involving five complex charactersvietnam war - fiction, psychological fiction

p.261.fictionFictional account of the horrors of the Vietnam conflictvietnam war - fiction, vietnam conflict 1961-1975 - personal recollections

Green hardcover book for boys, with the title Bretherton Khaki or Field-Grey? by W.F. Morris as well as the publisher Geoffrey Bles printed in black lettering with the symbol of a bird. 319p. 319p.fictionA tale of mystery and identity, first published in 1929 is an account of the brutal conditions at the battlefront in WW1 between English and German soldiers. It is an espionage thriller with a twisting and unusual plot with the English soldier G Bretherton as the main character.war fiction, romance fiction, spies fiction

Paperback book. Spine has the title printed down it in black print and a spine label taped to the base. Front cover is cream with a black border and green triangle shape across the lower right. Title and authors printed in black and above that is an image of a soldier in the cockpit of a tank.non-fictionA collection of twenty-four short stories about various aspects of World War II by authors such as Graham Greene, H.E. Bates, Kingsley Amis, V.S. Pritchett and Roald Dahl. The stories are based on first-hand experiences in all services and on the homefront. - From Trove record.ww2, wwii, world war 1939-1945, war fiction, short 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.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

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.286.non-fictionA Singapore falls to the Japanese a small group of men and women set sail on desperate journey. One of them carries a cargo without price, the complete plans for the Japanese invasion of Australia. In order to get at there is nothing the Japanese will not do. They will stop at nothing. world war 1939-1945 - fiction, war stories

p.310.fictionTwenty years after her father disappears on a bombing mission over Italy, Linda Carr resolves to find out what happened to the father she never knew. She is joined on her journey by Jack Kirby a former mosquito pilot who wants to find again a partisan he fell passionately in love with all those years ago.world war 1939-1945 - fiction, war stories

p.192.fictionAccount of naval battles in the Mediterranean during World war IIworld war 1939-1945 - fiction, war stories

ill., facsims, ports, 288 p. The fourth volume of Spike Milligan's legendary account of his time in the army during World War Two begins as he and his regiment land in sunny Italy in 1943 ('The ship touched the beach very gently, so gently I suspect it's not insured'). After a bout of Sandfly Fever, from which he soon recovers ('I'm ready to be killed again'), our plucky hero is piddled on by a farm dog ('Mussolini's revenge?') before forging his way inland towards the enemy and the sound of guns ('We're getting near civilisation'), where matters suddenly take a dark turn ('I was not really me any more')world war 1939-1945 - fiction, war stories

p.284.fictionSomewhere out there Ellie and her friends are hiding. They're shocked, they're frightened, they're alone. Their world has changed, with the speed of a slamming door. They've got no weapons - except courage. They've got no help - except themselves. They've got nothing - except friendship. How strong can you be, when the world is full of people trying to kill you?juvenile fiction, war stories - juvenile fiction

John Rowe puts his fingers into the open wounds of the Vietnam War. His book hursts, but it is essential reading for those who want to understand the war vietnam war, 1961-1975 - fiction, war stories

Must reading for every Ranger candidate. Highly authentic.vietnam war, 1961-1975 - fiction, war stories

A powerful story of the war in Vietnam.vietnam war, 1961-1975 - fiction, war stories

p.82.fictionA fictional account of an imagined trial of Italian dictator, Benito Mussoliniworld war 1939-1945 - fiction, war crimes trials

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.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

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

Thrilling true stories of animals who have worked and played alongside Australia's fighting forces.fictionHere are twenty-one fascinating stories about the forgotten heroes of war: animals who have served beside Australian Forcesanimals - war use - fiction, animal heroes - fiction

p.283.fictionSidelined by a wartime injury, fighter pilot Alan Duncan reluctantly returns to his parents’ remote sheep station in Australia to take the place of his brother Bill, who died a hero in the war. But his homecoming is marred by the suicide of his parents’ parlormaid, of whom they were very fond. Alan soon realizes that the dead young woman is not the person she pretended to be. Upon discovering that she had served in the Royal Navy and participated along with his brother in the secret build-up to the Normandy invasion, Alan sets out to piece together the tragic events and the lonely burden of guilt that unravelled one woman’s life. In the process of finding the answer to the mystery, he realizes how much he had in common with this woman he never knew and how “a war can go on killing people long after it’s all over.”english fiction, world war two - fiction

p.255.fictionSet in the Pacific theater, the story centers on the crew of an RAN fleet destroyer, capturing the intense naval operations, camaraderie, and hardships faced by sailors aboard smaller warships amid fierce combat against Japanese forcesaustralian fiction, world war two - fiction

p.351.fictionLove story concerning three people begins in the early days of the World War and ends shortly after D-day. world war two - fiction, romantic fiction

p.266.fictionElleston Trevor depicts the men of a tank squadron as they cross the silent, darkened channel, storm the "invincible" coast, and sweep into Falaise. His book is a classic story of men at war. world war two - fiction, english fiction

bib, p.302.fictionA novel set in the final days of World War II and the the resistance of the fanatical Nazi Werewolf groups.world war two - fiction, germany - nazi party

p.351.fictionThe heartrending story of British boy Jim's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai--a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged. world war 1939-1945 - fiction, world war 1939 – 1945 - prisons and prisoners - japanese

p.256non-fictionAlmost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, the three Navarone heroes are parachuted into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of partisans and fulfil a secret mission, so deadly that it must be hidden even from their own allies. world war 1939-1945 - fiction, british fiction