The Salamander and the Fire
Collected War Stories
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Published:19th Aug '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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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