
THE CAINE MUTINY
by Herman Wouk · Doubleday
Each decade new readers discover the characters and curious activities aboard the U.S.S. "Caine in this classic tale of pathos, humor, and scope.

by Herman Wouk · Doubleday
Each decade new readers discover the characters and curious activities aboard the U.S.S. "Caine in this classic tale of pathos, humor, and scope.

by Nicholas Monsarrat · Alfred A. Knopf
Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep.
by Erich Maria Remarque · Hutchinson and Co Ltd
Story of victims in a Nazi concentration camp.


by Graham Greene · Viking Press
Account of a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God.




by J.D. Salinger · Little, Brown and Company,
'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.' The first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels. 'The handbook of the adolescent heart' The New Yorker
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