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Military Personnel who wrote military fiction
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James Salter
James Salter (1925-2015)

aircraft pilot, film director, airman

  • United States Military Academy, Horace Mann School

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Paths less travelled
There & then
In der Wand
Flight Patterns
West Point
My Lord You
Memorable days
Collected Stories
Freizeitparks in Europa
Solo Faces
Tasting Paris
Tender Hour of Twilight : Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s
A idade da auga
Karl Marlantes
Karl Marlantes (born 1944)

military officer, documentary filmmaker

  • Yale University, University of Oxford

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What It Is Like to Go to War
Matterhorn
Matterhorn
Deep River
What It Is Like to Go to War
Matterhorn
Matterhorn
Going to war
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

reporter, military personnel, poet

  • University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

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Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Prentice Hall Literature--The British Edition--Volume II
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
The War Poems
Prentice Hall
Siegfried Sassoon letters to Max Beerbohm
Diaries
Sherston's progress
The old century and seven more years
The complete memoirs of George Sherston
Counter-attack, and other poems
The War Poems
Poems
Siegfried's journey, 1916-1920
Siegfried Sassoon diaries, 1923-1925
The memoirs of George Sherston
The weald of youth
Picture-show
Siegfried Sassoon: poet's pilgrimage
Siegfried Sassoon diaries, 1920-1922
Meredith
Letters to Max Beerbohm
Letters to a critic
Sassoon's Long Journey
Collected Poems, 1908-1956
The old huntsman
Selected poems
Rhymed ruminations
Lenten illuminations
Ave, atque vale
In Sicily
The flower show match
Poems newly selected
Four poems
The road to ruin
The daffodil murderer
The path to peace
Vigils
Lingual exercises for advanced vocabularians
Arbor vitae
A suppressed poem
Siegfried Sassoon
Satirical poems
The heart's journey
Arms and the Boy
On poetry
An adjustment
Human bondage
Renewals
To the red rose
To my mother
Everyone sang, April 1919
Sequences
Nativity
Something about myself
Recreations
An octave
The tasking
Discoveries
Collected Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Prehistoric burials
Sunday morning visitors
Owen and Sassoon
Awaitment
Poets of the Great War
The General and other poems
Faber War Poets Collection - 6 Books
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Sassoon
Orpheus, in Diloeryum ...
Poems from Italy
Satirical poems
Nativity
The daffodil murderer
Counter-attack, and other poems
Siegfried Sassoon
To the red rose
The heart's journey
Common chords
Picture-show
Satirical poems
Siegfried Sassoon correspondence
The tasking
Rhymed ruminations
To my mother
Four poems
Richard Aldington
Richard Aldington (1892-1962)

poet, translator, journalist, biographer, military personnel, literary critic, editing staff

  • University of London, Dover College

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Death of a hero
All men are enemies
Richard Aldington & H.D
Images of war
Passionate Prodigality
Literary lifelines
Richard Aldington
The Viking book of poetry of the English-speaking world
An imagist at war
Balls, and Another book for suppression
Life for life's sake
Four English portraits
Voltaire
French studies and reviews
Portrait of a rebel
Jane Austen
War and love (1915-1918)
Rejected guest
W. Somerset Maugham
Literary studies and reviews
Remy de Gourmont
Images of desire
The strange life of Charles Waterton
Pinorman
Collected Poems by Richard Aldington
Richard Aldington
Portrait of a genius
Bubb booklets
Ezra Pound & T.S. Eliot
The dearest friend
The complete poems of Richard Aldington
Richard Aldington: selected critical writings, 1928-1960
Fifty romance lyric poems
Images (1910-1915)
Soft answers
Seven against Reeves
The Duke, being an account of the life & achievements of Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington ..
The religion of beauty
France... a book of photographs
Poetry of the English-speaking world
Medallions from Anyte of Tegea, Meleager of Gadara, the Anacreontea, Latinpoets of the Renaissance
Candide and other romances
Literary Lifelines
Lawrence of Arabia, a biographical enquiry
French comedies of the 18th century
Artifex; sketches and ideas
D.H. Lawrence, an indiscretion
Great French romances
A.E. Housman & W.B. Yeats; two lectures
Doch polkovnika
Poetry, The Viking Book of
Switzerland
Medallions in clay
Images
Images old and new
A tourist's Rome
The squire
At all costs
David Herbert Lawrence in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumentum
The crystal world
A dream in the Luxembourg
The approach to M. Marcel Proust
A letter from Richard Aldington and a summary bibliography of Count Potocki's published works
André Spire
Frauds
The Colonel's daughter, a novel
The poems of Richard Aldington
Latin poems of the Renaissance
RICHARD ALDINGTON & H.D.: THEIR LIVES IN LETTERS, 1918-61; ED. BY CAROLINE ZILBOORG
A fool i' the forest
Stepping heavenward
D.H. Lawrence; an appreciation
The romance of Casanova
Greek songs in the manner of Anacreon
Balls
A book of characters
Exile, and other poems
Images of War, a Book of Poems
A Wreath for San Gemignano
The influence of Mr. James Joyce
The love of Myrrhine and Konallis
Moartea unui erou
Women must work
Roads to Glory (Arts & Literature)
Life of a lady
Introduction to Mistral
Hark the herald
Heldentod
Madrigal
Women must work
The Berkshire Kennet
Death of a hero
Latin poems of the Renaissance
France = La France = Frankreich
Movietones
Balls and Another book for suppression
In Winter
D. H. Lawrence
The love of Myrrhine and Konallis
Images (1910-1915)
Love and the Luxembourg
A Roman letter
Life quest
Great French romances
A poem
The eaten heart
A.E. Housman & W.B. Yeats
Some imagist poets
Stepping heavenward
The fifteen joys of marriage
Fifty Romance lyric poems
The Viking book of poetry of the English-speaking world
Introduction to Mistral
The Berkshire Kennet
Literary studies and reviews
Poets of the Great War Cassette set
Love and the Luxembourg
The selected war poems
Two stories
France = La France = Frankriech
Very heaven
Soft answers
Literary lifelines, the Richard Aldington-Lawrence Durrell correspondence
A dream in the Luxembourg
Images of desire
Reverie
The imagists
Vse l︠i︡udi -- vragi
Images of war
F.T. Marinetti
Last straws
Edinstvenna︠i︡a l︠i︡ubovʹ Kazanovy
Collected Poems
Lawrence l'imposteur
Last straws
Remy de Gourmont, a modern man of letters
Sven Hassel
Sven Hassel (1917-2012)

military personnel

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William March
William March (1893-1954)

sailor, soldier

  • Columbia University, University of Alabama

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Company K
Great American Short Stories
Fifty Best American Short Stories
The Bad Seed
The bad seed
The Bad Seed
Trial balance
Come in at the door
A William March omnibus
99 fables
The little wife and other stories
October Island
Menina Má
Company K
Some like them short
The Tallons
The looking-glass
Trial Balance
Compagnie K
הזרע הרע
Company K
Company K
The William March Collection
H. C. McNeile
H. C. McNeile (1888-1937)

engineer, military personnel, playwright

  • Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Cheltenham College

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Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R. E
Mufti
Bulldog Drummond at bay
The black gang
Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond returns
Temple tower
Classic Detective Stories
The final count
Challenge
No man's land
The lieutenant and others
Jim Maitland
The finger of Fate
The human touch
The Best Short Stories
The female of the species
The Man in Ratcatcher
The island of terror
Bull-dog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond's Third Round
Classic Tales of Murder
The dinner club
Men, women and guns
Return of Bulldog Drummond
Ronald Standish
Bulldog Drummond strikes back
Third round
Black Gang Further Adventures of Bulldog Drummond
Saving Clause
Tiny Carteret
Sapper's war stories
Bulldog Drummond
Word of honour
Jim Brent
John Walters
Ask for Ronald Standish
The valley of the shadow
Out of the Blue
That bullet hole has a history!
The poser
Bulton's revenge
The Original Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond Megapack
A scrap of paper
Black Gang and Alias the Lone Wolf
Valerii Markus
Valerii Markus (born 1993)

blogger, military personnel, activist, traveler, soldier, paratrooper

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