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The cruel sea
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It was the cruelest of battles. For the crews of the merchant ships were highly vulnerable, could scarcely fight back and had little chance to survive after after an attack. |
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Classic Stories of World War II
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Nancy Wake,Richard Hillary,Evelyn Waugh,Guy Gibson,Kurt Vonnegut,Norman Mailer,John Steinbeck,Joseph Heller,Nicholas Monsarrat,John Richard Hersey,J. G. Ballard,Raymond Paull,Irwin Shaw,James A. Michener,James Jones,Ronald Seth |
A perfect morning (from The Young Lions) / Irwin Shaw --
Lunghua camp (from Empire of the Sun) / J. G. Ballard --
The big day (from From Here to Eternity) / James Jones --
The landing on Kuralei (… |
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The nylon pirates
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Nicholas Monsarrat |
Written by a master storyteller, this story takes place aboard a millionaires' cruise ship and is indeed adventure on the high seas. Although most of the 300 passengers aboard the Alcestis have one t… |
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The Story of Esther Costello
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Nicholas Monsarrat |
A very humane fictional story about a severely disabled ten year old girl being rescued from poor suroundings by a
rich philanthropic american lady and taken to America for initially to seek a medi… |
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Heroic War Stories
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Alistair MacLean,Robert Graves,Richard Hillary,Erich Maria Remarque,H. G. Wells,Cecil Woodham Smith,Airey Neave,David Niven,Arthur Conan Doyle,Larry Forrester,Guy Gibson,Joseph Conrad,Ambrose Bierce,H. E. Bates,Norman Mailer,William Makepeace Thackeray,Stephen Crane,David Niven,Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy,Joseph Heller,Nicholas Monsarrat,Richard Alexander Hough,P. C. Wren,Frederic Manning |
Fair stood the wind for France / H.E. Bates --
How Brigadier Gerard won his medal / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
The Invaders (from The Last enemy) / Richard Hillary -
The War of the worlds / H.G. We… |
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