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Great Second World War stories

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short stories

Great Second World War stories

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Over 30 great stories of the heroism and brutality, starvation and survival, defeats and triumphs commemorating 75 years since the outbreak of World War Two

A perfect morning / Irwin Shaw -- Lunghua Camp / J.G. Ballard -- The journey / Nevil Shute -- The birth of an idea / Ewen Montague -- The big day / James Jones -- Abducting the General / W. Stanley Moss -- The landing at Kuralei / James A. Michener -- Shall I live for a ghost? / Richard Hillary -- Billy Pilgrim / Kurt Vonnegut -- Battalion in defence / Evelyn Waugh -- Anopopei / Norman Mailer -- Plane land here / Charles J. Rolo -- Mission asymptote / Bruce Marshall -- Fraternizing with the enemy? / Paul Brickhill -- Shooting party / Graham Brooks -- H-hour / Cornelius Ryan -- Into Germany / R.J. Minney -- Ironbottom sound / Lindsay Baly -- The first bid for freedom / P.R.Reid -- Some were unlucky / Guy Gibson -- May 1941 / Nella Last -- Major Major Major Major / Joseph Heller -- The Battle of the Bulge / Martha Gelhorn -- The invasion of Papua / Raymond Paull -- No trouble at all / H.E. Bates -- Stalingrad, the story of the Battle / Ronald Seth -- The soldier looks for his family / John Prebble -- The white mouse and the Maquis d'Auvergne / Nancy Wake -- Fear of death / F.J. Salfeld -- The invaders / John Steinbeck -- The compass rose / Nicholas Monsarrat -- The diary of a desert rat / R.L. Crimp -- The Mannerheim Line / James Aldridge -- Midway! / Robert J. Casey -- Hiroshima, the fire / John Hersey