The Veterans
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 2015
304 pages
978-1-78497-575-3 (ISBN)
Description
THE JUNGLES OF NEW GUINEA: WORLD WAR II.
They are the veterans of the North African desert campaign, home for three weeks' leave after three long years at war - time to find the brothels, the black markets, the racketeers and the dollar-happy Yank servicemen.
When a faceless madman in the War Office throws them into the shell-torn beaches, mountain trails and steaming jungles of New Guinea, they become creatures of the mud; walking skeletons racked with malaria. There are thousands of them.
In the throes of battle, black clouds billow about the destroyers in the distance, piercing the darkness with savage explosions. In a merciless system of mutual slaughter, they must draw on every last ounce of their strength for a chance of survival against the raging fires of war, the endless jungle and the brutal enemy that lies within it.
They are the veterans of the North African desert campaign, home for three weeks' leave after three long years at war - time to find the brothels, the black markets, the racketeers and the dollar-happy Yank servicemen.
When a faceless madman in the War Office throws them into the shell-torn beaches, mountain trails and steaming jungles of New Guinea, they become creatures of the mud; walking skeletons racked with malaria. There are thousands of them.
In the throes of battle, black clouds billow about the destroyers in the distance, piercing the darkness with savage explosions. In a merciless system of mutual slaughter, they must draw on every last ounce of their strength for a chance of survival against the raging fires of war, the endless jungle and the brutal enemy that lies within it.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78497-575-3 (9781784975753)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Eric Lambert was a bestselling Australian novelist and journalist. He reported on the 1956 Hungarian uprising for The Daily Telegraph, wrote seventeen novels under his own name, and as 'D. Brennan' retold film stories.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Book 1: Homecoming
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Book 2: Short Pause for Bastardy
- Chapter 1
- Book 3: The Dim Green Island
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Preview
- About The Veterans
- About Eric Lambert
- Also by Eric Lambert
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
