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The Salamander and the Fire

Collected War Stories

Dan Davin author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:19th Aug '10

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First published in 1986, these collected war stories are told in the order of the Middle East campaigns that provide their settings. The characters are mainly men from the New Zealand Division seen in battle, and in the intervals between battle, sometimes scared, bored, drunk, and disillusioned, like soldiers everywhere. One story, 'The General and the Nightingale,' gives a vivid picture of General Freyberg, the man Churchill called 'the Salamander of the British Empire'. The men of the 2NZ he described as 'a ball of fire'. The author of these stories was one of them.

ISBN: 9780571272792

Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 17mm

Weight: 298g

228 pages

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