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In 1914, a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth, they sign up. What follows is the story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disi...llusionment of life in the trenches.
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Includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Isaac Babel and Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich B-ll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O'Brien, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernires.
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In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war', with the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. This title tells the story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disil...lusionment of life in the trenches.
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| ISBN |
9781409015741 |
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EPUB |
| Software |
Read in Browser or Adobe Ebook Compatible Device |
| Language |
en |
| Released NZ |
23 Nov 2010 |
| Publisher |
Random House |
| Interest Age |
15+ years |
| Series |
Vintage War |
| Ebook Terms |
Titles are sold with a 2 year time limit, or 36 loan limit, 21 days maximum loan period view? |
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36
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By Grass, Gunter
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On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures is post-war Germany.
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A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of ...absolution.
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Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters, and Stephen volunteers to fight on the Western... Front.
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Stingo, an inexperienced 22 year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There, he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core ...of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, and her choice.
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It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and i...nner crises deflect him from his purpose, and love intervenes.
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By Lomax, Eric
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A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a c...rude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences.
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Atonement
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By McEwan, Ian
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Thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilla strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, t...he lives of all three will have been changed for ever.
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