Classic Stories of World War II
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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 (from Tales of the South Pacific) / James A. Michener --
Shall live for a ghost? (from The Last Enemy) / Richard Hillary --
Billy Pilgrim (from Slaughterhouse Five) / Kurt Vonnegut --
Battalion in defence (from Officers and Gentlemen) / Evelyn Waugh --
Anopopei (from The Naked and the Dead) / Norman Mailer --
Some were unlucky (from Enemy Coast Ahead) / Guy Gibson, VC --
Major major major major (from Catch-22) / Joseph Heller --
The invasion of Papua (from Retreat from Kokoda) / Raymond Paull --
Stalingrad : the story of the battle (from Stalingrad : Point of Return) / Ronald Seth --
The White Mouse and the Maquis d'Auvergne (from The White Mouse) / Nancy Wake --
The invaders (from The Moon is Down) / John Steinbeck --
The blooding of the compass rose (from The Cruel Sea) / Nicholas Monsarrat --
Hiroshima : the fire (from Hiroshima / John Hersey.
Lunghua camp (from Empire of the Sun) / J. G. Ballard --
The big day (from From Here to Eternity) / James Jones --
The landing on Kuralei (from Tales of the South Pacific) / James A. Michener --
Shall live for a ghost? (from The Last Enemy) / Richard Hillary --
Billy Pilgrim (from Slaughterhouse Five) / Kurt Vonnegut --
Battalion in defence (from Officers and Gentlemen) / Evelyn Waugh --
Anopopei (from The Naked and the Dead) / Norman Mailer --
Some were unlucky (from Enemy Coast Ahead) / Guy Gibson, VC --
Major major major major (from Catch-22) / Joseph Heller --
The invasion of Papua (from Retreat from Kokoda) / Raymond Paull --
Stalingrad : the story of the battle (from Stalingrad : Point of Return) / Ronald Seth --
The White Mouse and the Maquis d'Auvergne (from The White Mouse) / Nancy Wake --
The invaders (from The Moon is Down) / John Steinbeck --
The blooding of the compass rose (from The Cruel Sea) / Nicholas Monsarrat --
Hiroshima : the fire (from Hiroshima / John Hersey.
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