A Real Good War by Sam Halpert
'Gritty, funny and rich with authenticity.' - Robert Olen Butler 'Sam Halpert shines his light on a well-worn subject and gives us material glowing with stoic humour and a crusty humanity. A unique and moving book' - Susan Minot Engrossing...evokes the fine line between a close call and a tragedy, not to mention the way guilt is detonated by war's deadly absurdity' - New York Times.-
The Forgotten Soldier
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The Great Escape
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The Spanish Civil War
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The Road Past Mandalay
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Bugles and a Tiger
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Winged Dagger
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Three Corvettes
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Memoirs
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Fighting Scared
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Run Silent, Run Deep
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Popski's Private Army
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U-boat Killer
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Burma Victory
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The Purple Plain
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And We Shall Shock Them
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The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby
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Hirschfeld
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Death to the French
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Stirling's Men
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Borodino
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The Small Back Room
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Eagle Against the Sun
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The Scarlet Sword
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Donitz and the Wolf Pack
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The Hunting of Force Z
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Operation Eichmann
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Escape and Evasion
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War Story
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No Picnic
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By Sea and Land
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Full Circle
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Wingate and the Chindits
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Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Liaison, 1914
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Himmler
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The "Daily Telegraph" British Battlefields
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Kentucky Blues
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Hornet's Sting
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Auchinleck
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Kamikaze
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Gunboat!
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Nightfighter
Born in 1920 in New York, Halpert served as a navigator on B-17 bombers, flying 35 missions over Nazi Germany. After college, he worked as a teacher and typographer until retiring to Florida in 1982.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780304358557 |
| ISBN 10 | 030435855X |
| Title | A Real Good War |
| Author | Sam Halpert |
| Series | Cassell Military Paperbacks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2001-05-10 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |