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Write a review for this book Reviews: 0This book is a story about a boy who goes to war but also fills you in on the wider picture. It's set on the western front in France, World War One. This was the Australians' bloodiest day at war...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 6This is the story of a vastly outnumbered force of poorly-trained and poorly-supplied Australian militia who stopped a huge but ill-conceived Japanese attack on Port Moresby, over the spine of New...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 1The Woeful Second World War presents the dire details of a war that affected almost everyone - from old men joining the Dad's Army to the 12 year olds defending Berlin to the bitter end. Find out...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 1The details of the dreadful war that affected everyone, from peace-loving protesters to the suffering soldiers. There are ropey rhymes and sad songs, rotten rules and sinister superstitions. Here...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 2The dark clouds returned and gathered about the boy. His eyes grew distant, and he began to tremble. He heard not only shells exploding, but the cries of dying men . . . He was stumbling over...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 1The First World War was only meant to last six months.
When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half... -
Write a review for this book Reviews: 0Can Lisa ever escape the shadows of Vietnam? The war has be en over for more than ten years, but its ramifications continue to haunt twelve-year-old Lisa Grey's life.
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 1When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Firth emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 1Written in the form of a suspense novel, Emil & Karl draws readers into the dilemma faced by two young boys--one Jewish, the other not--when they suddenly find themselves without...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 0Dictionary of the Khazars is the imaginary book of knowledge of the Khazars, a people who flourished somewhere beyond Transylvania between the seventh and ninth centuries. Eschewing...
