Books like Tales of the South Pacific
Linked stories of American servicemen, nurses and islanders in the South Pacific during the Second World War, as the forces build up for the invasion of the Solomons.
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From Here to Eternity
In 1941 at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt, a bugler and boxer, refuses to box for his new company and is given the treatment, while his first sergeant begins an affair with the captain's wife.
One of Ours
Claude Wheeler, a restless Nebraska farm boy who feels he was meant for something larger, finds it when America enters the First World War.
And Where Were You, Adam?
Linked episodes of the German retreat from Romania and Hungary in 1944, following a soldier, Feinhals, among men who no longer believe in anything.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
An Italian officer and a Greek woman fall in love on occupied Cephalonia during World War II.
Mister Pip
On Bougainville during the civil war of the 1990s, Mr Watts, the island's last white man, starts teaching the children from Great Expectations, and thirteen-year-old Matilda falls into it.
The Prospector
Alexis grows up on Mauritius at the end of the nineteenth century, and when his family is ruined he spends years searching for a pirate's treasure on the island of Rodrigues.
The Caine Mutiny
Willie Keith, a rich young Princeton graduate, joins the navy and is posted to the Caine, a battered old minesweeper, where a new captain named Queeg takes command.
A Farewell to Arms
An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love on the Italian front in World War I, and the war grinds their happiness to nothing.
Across the River and into the Trees
Colonel Richard Cantwell, fifty, scarred by two wars and with a failing heart, spends a winter weekend in Venice duck-hunting and with Renata, a young Venetian countess who loves him.
Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
Love in a Fallen City
Stories of love and money in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1940s; in the title novella, a divorced woman goes to Hong Kong to win a rich playboy, and the Japanese attack.
The Storm We Made
In 1945, near the end of the Japanese occupation of Malaya, Cecily Alcantara watches her three children suffer for a choice she made years before, when she began passing secrets to a Japanese general who promised an Asia for Asians.