Nicholas Monsarrat

A perfect morning (from The young lions) / Irwin Shaw Lunghua camp (from Empire of the Sun) / J.G. Ballard The journey (from A town like Alice) / Nevil Shute The birth of an idea (from The man who never was) / Ewen Montague The big day (from From here to eternity) / James Jones Abducting the general (from Ill met by midnight) / W. Stanley Moss The landing at Kuralei (from Tales of the South Pacific) / James A. Michener Shall I live for a ghost (from The last enemy) / Richard Hillary Billy Pilgrim (from Slaughterhouse Five) / Kurt Vonnegut Battalion in defense (from Officers and gentlemen) / Evelyn Waugh Anopopei (from The naked and the dead) / Norman Mailer 'Plane land here' (from Wingate's raiders) / Charles J. Rolo Mission asymptote (from The white rabbit) / Bruce Marshall Fraternizing with the enemy? (from Reach for the sky) / Paul Brickhill Shooting party (from Grand party) Graham Brooks H-hour (from The longest day) / Cornelius Ryan Into Germany (from Carve her name with pride) / R.J. Minney Ironbottom Sound (from Ironbottom Sound) / Lindsay Baly The first bid for freedom (from The Colditz story) / P.R. Reed Some were unlucky (from Enemy coast ahead) / Guy Gibson, VC May 1941 (from Nella Last's diary) / Nella Last Major major major major (from Catch 22) / Joseph Heller The battle of the bulge (from The face of war) / Martha Gelhorn The invasion of Papua (from Retreat from Kokoda) / Raymond Paull No trouble at all (from The stories of flying officer X) / H.E. Bates Stalingrad The story of the battle (from Stalingrad point of return) / Ronald Seth The soldier looks for his family / John Prebble The white mouse and the Maquis d'Auvergne (from The white mouse) / Nancy Wake Fear of death / F.J. Salfeld The invaders (from The Moon is down) / John Steinbeck The compass rose (from The cruel sea) / Nicholas Monsarrat The diary of a desert rat (from The diary of a desert rat) / R.L. Crimp The Mannerheim Line (from Of many men) / James Aldridge Midway (from Torpedo Junction) / Robert J. Casey Hiroshima the fire (from Hiroshima) / John Hersey

Five hundred miles off the southwest coast of Africa lies the island of Pharamaul, a British Protectorate, governed from Whitehall through a handful of devoted British civilians. In the south of the island lies Port Victoria, dominated by the Governor's palatial mansion; in the north, a settlement of mud huts shelter a hundred thousand natives; and in dense jungle live the notorious Maula tribe, kept under surveillance by a solitary District Officer and his young wife. When Chief-designate, Dinamaula, returns from his studies in England with a spirited desire to speed the development of his people, political crisis erupts into a ferment of intrigue and violence.

Collection of notes, of things seen and met with during two years of escort duty in a corvette.

The vanished man/Jeffrey Deaver Don't look back/Karin Fossum [Prey]( Crichton Street boys/Lorenzo Carcaterra

Teen detective Nancy Drew searches for a saboteur lacing skincare products with poison at the local mall in this thrilling mystery. Nancy Drew’s boyfriend Ned Nickerson has taken on a real-life project as part of a class at Emerson College—helping do market research for skin cream in River Heights. But people start having adverse reactions to the product in incredible numbers, making Ned and Nancy suspect sabotage. It’s up to Nancy to find the source of poison and uncover the perpetrator.

Written by a master storyteller, this story takes place aboard a millionaires' cruise ship and is indeed adventure on the high seas. Although most of the 300 passengers aboard the Alcestis have one thing in common- a desire for fun in the sun and lots of money, the exception is Carl Wenstron and his "family group". Each is adept in their own way of extracting as much money as possible from their fellow passengers.

Contains: - A Member of the Family - The Kappillan of Malta - In Darkness - [Jaws](

A very humane fictional story about a severely disabled ten year old girl being rescued from poor suroundings by a rich philanthropic american lady and taken to America for initially to seek a medical cure for her condition. By pure accident, there became so much public Interest in the afflicted girl that what started out to be a charitable cause suddenly became big business and an element of sleaze crept in. Womderful story, well written, strange twist at the end.