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“edward lording”

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  • There and Back: The Story of an Australian Soldier 1915-35

    Enriched edition. A Soldier's Journey Through War and Beyond

    by Edward Lording, Marcus Hudson ...
    In "There and Back: The Story of an Australian Soldier 1915-35," Edward Lording crafts a poignant narrative that chronicles the harrowing experiences of an Australian soldier during and after World War I. Through meticulous research and evocative prose, Lording delves into the complexities of military life, the trauma of war, and the struggles of reintegration into civilian life. The work not only ... Read more

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    Archie Barwick's WWI Diary - from Gallipoli to the Western Front and Home Again

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    An Aussie soldier's diary of the first World War - by turns compelling, illuminating, funny, touching and sad - and absolutely unputdownable.Archie Albert Barwick was an enthusiastic young 24 year old when he joined the First AIF in late August 1914 - his service number was 914. When he learnt that he'd been accepted into the army, he was so happy he turned two somersaults for pure joy. this is ... Read more

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  • Covenant with Death

    by John Harris ...
    Stirringly told from the view of everyday soldiers, Covenant with Death is acclaimed as one of the greatest novels about war ever written. With a new foreword by Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin***.***They joined for their country. They fought for each other.When war breaks out in 1914, Mark Fenner and his Sheffield friends immediately flock to Kitchener's call. Amid waving ... Read more

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  • Wallaby Warrior

    The World War I diaries of Australia's only British Lion

    by Greg Growden ...
    Tom Richards is the only Australian-born Test rugby player to have played for both Australia and the British Lions. When the Australian team won the Gold Medal for rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games, the London Times pronounced: 'If ever the Earth had to select a Rugby Football team to play against Mars, Tom Richards would be the first player chosen.'With an introduction by leading Australian rugby ... Read more

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  • That's Me in the Middle

    Volume II of The Bandy Papers

    by Donald Jack ...
    Series Book 2 - The Bandy Papers
    Promoted from the rank of Acting Temporary Captain in a Royal Flying Corps training squadron to that of very temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Air Ministry, ace pilot Bartholomew Wolfe Bandy blots his copybook with an ill-considered speech, flies to Ireland by mistake, and is sent back to the chaos of the Western Front as a lieutenant with the 13th Bicycle Battalion (also known as "Captain Craig ... Read more

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  • Nothing of Importance

    by Bernard Adams ...
    Adams served as a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was stationed on the Western Front, primarily in the trenches of the Somme. In this memoir, he documents the daily life of a soldier, focusing on the mundane routines, camaraderie, and the moments of terror faced by men living in the trenches. Through his detailed and often stark writing, Adams captures the contrast ... Read more

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  • Closely Watched Trains

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Edith Pargeter ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writersFor twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the pretty conductor Masha, the scandalous goings-on in the station master's office. Beside them, the part he will come to play ... Read more

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  • War Is War

    by A. M. Burrage ...
    Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.Written in the 1920s he wanted the curious to know what war was really like. Burrage realized that nearly all such memoirs were written by ex-officers who inevitably saw the war from a ... Read more

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  • Surgeon at Arms

    Parachuting into Arnhem with the First Airbornes

    by Lipmann Kessel ...
    Surgeon at Arms is without doubt one of the most interesting and dramatic personal memoirs to come out of the Second World War. The author, a surgeon, was parachuted into Arnhem with the First Airborne Division. His professional skill was at once tested to the limit and the modest detachment with which he describes serious operations performed under appalling conditions would alone be enough to ... Read more

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  • To Hell And Back

    The Banned Account of Gallipoli's Horror by Journalist and Soldier Sydney Loch

    by Susanna De Vries ...
    The book the military censors bannedAs a young soldier in the battlefields of Gallipoli, Sydney Loch witnessed the horror of war first-hand. On his return to Australia he detailed what he saw in his book, the Straits Impregnable. Hoping to avoid military censorship, his publishers dubbed Sydney's book a novel. But as the war ground on and the numbers of casualties grew, the publisher inserted a ... Read more

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  • Escaper's Progress

    The Remarkable POW Experiences of a Royal Naval Officer

    by David James ...
    A British naval officer details life as a prisoner of war and his courageous and suspenseful escape attempts during World War II.David James was in Motor Gunboats (with Robert Hichens of Gunboat Command). Captured in February 1943 after abandoning ship due to fierce engagement with three German armed trawlers in the North Sea, he was imprisoned in Dulag Marlag.His first tunnel was discovered ... Read more

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  • Sergeant Michael Cassidy, The Lieutenant & Other War Stories (67 Short Stories in One Volume) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. British Trench Warfare and Great War Military Tales

    by H. C. McNeile, Sapper, Wesley Calderwick ...
    Sergeant Michael Cassidy, The Lieutenant & Other War Stories gathers sixty-seven compact narratives shaped by the pressures, ironies, and brutal intimacies of modern war. Moving between trench episode, military sketch, adventure tale, and character study, the volume reveals a literary world in which courage, class, discipline, fear, and comradeship are tested under extreme conditions. Standout ... Read more

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