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Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Probably the best known of all First World War books, and with good
reason.
Paperback Reissue edition (June 1995)
Fawcett Books; ISBN: 0449213943
Chickenhawk
by Robert C. Mason
An extraordinary book by a veteran
of 1000 helicopter missions in Vietnam. Read
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Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
"...one of the best war novels of the 20th century."
(Paperback - July 1995)
The Forgotten Soldier
by Guy Sajer
Listed under Eastern Front
The
Last Enemy
Richard Hillary
One of the greatest books of the Second World War, highly recommended.
Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy
by Ray Parkin
An extraordinary work by an Australian who endured the sinking of his
ship, the Perth, after an epic battle in the Sunda Strait against impossible
odds. Captured by the Japanese, he then spent years as a POW on the Burma
Railway before being shipped to Japan to work the mines until the dropping
of the atomic bomb. The work comprises his three books: Out of the Smoke;
Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom. Dropbears.com
Listed under Australia at War
Rommel : The Desert Fox
Desmond Young
A classic work widely regarded as the best book on Rommel and the Desert
War, it is written by a Brigadier who personally witnessed much of the
action described and diligently reseached his subject after war's end.
The book may well leave you with a sense that this was a soldier the likes
of which is seen perhaps once in several generations.
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Listed under Rommel
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. E. Lawrence
A superbly written account of desert warfare against the Ottoman Turk
in
WWI by one one of the most intriguing characters of the modern era, this
ranks as one of the great classics of 20th century literature..
Listed under Lawrence of Arabia
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