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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War Ser.
One by one the boys begin to fall...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 moving story of a young 'unknown soldier? experiencing th ...Show more
Atonement by Ian McEwan
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia 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 ...Show more
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christians and Muslims have co-existed peacefully for cen ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War
A novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. 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, t ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage War | Reading Level: very good
WWI Centenary EditionWith a new introduction from the authorA novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. 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 ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a band of anti-fascist guerrilla prepares to blow up a strategically vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And ther ...Show more
Nineteen Twenty-One by Adam Thorpe
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War
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 inner crises deflect him ...Show more
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War
It is the summer of 1947, and Stingo is living in a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant an ...Show more
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War
The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who, in 1945, guides her young siblings across a devastated Germany after her Nazi parents are seized by the Al ...Show more
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War
This is the story of innocence betrayed, of passion and curiosity about the world of machines turned nightmarish and punished by the cruelty of which only humans are capable. It is also a story of survival and courage. Eric Lomax was tortured by the Japanese on the Burma-Siam Railway. Fifty years later ...Show more
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War
On his third birthday, at three feet tall, Oskar decides to stop growing. On the same day, he receives his first tin drum. Together with his piercing scream, he wields his drum as an anarchic weapon, drawing forth memories from the past and passing judgement on the horrors, injustices, and eccentricitie ...Show more
The Vintage Book of War Stories by Sebastian Faulks
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War
Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, this collection of stories investigates the nature of military experience: from call-ups, the field of battle and comradeship, to leave, hospitalisation and trauma in later life. Truly international in scope, it includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque a ...Show more