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The general and the nightin...
"Dan Davin was the author of the only substantial body of war fiction written by a New Zealand soldier during any of the wars in which the nation has been engaged. The General and the Nightingale brings together Davin's 20 war stories loosely based on his experiences as 'a wartime scholar-soldier' and those of his fellow soldiers in the British and New Zealand armies. They yield an unparalleled insight into the Anzac soldier during the Mediterranean and African desert campaigns of World War II. Editor Janet Wilson notes they can be read as 'fictionalised accounts rather than imaginative fictions'. Born and raised in a working-class Catholic family in Southland, Davin had recently completed a degree at Oxford when he enlisted in the British Army in 1939. After receiving a commission in 1940 he successfully applied to be transferred to the New Zealand forces. He saw active service in Greece and North Africa, was wounded in Crete, and rose to become General Freyberg's intelligence officer in the Italian campaign. The General and the Nightingale updates The Salamander and the Fire, published in 1986 and long out of print. It features comprehensive notes, a glossary, a chronology, a map of story locations, a bibliography and an introduction by Janet Wilson. It is a companion volume to The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin's Southland short stories (OUP, 2007), which is also being reissued"--Print version
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monografia Rebiun29131017 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun29131017 m o d cr ||||||||||| 130617t20202020nz ob 00| j eng 1148598148 1148898033 1152233510 9781988592336 epub) 198859233X 9781988592343 Kindle) 1988592348 9781988592350 pdf) 1988592356 9781988531823 print) 1988531829 BDBCA106-C483-4253-BE7E-A648FE29D099 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com NZ1 eng rda NZ1 N$T TEFOD YDXIT OCLCF YDX UKAHL EBLCP OCLCO nznb u-nz--- Davin, Dan 1913-1990) author The general and the nightingale Dan Davin's war stories edited by Janet Wilson Dunedin Otago University Press, Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou [2020] Dunedin Dunedin Otago University Press, Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou 2020 1 online resource 1 online resource Text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier National Library of New Zealand archived copy text file EPUB Archived by the National Library of New Zealand in EPUB. Nz Short stories Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title may not be functional. Nz Includes bibliographical references Introduction: Dan Davin's war stories -- 1. Below the heavens -- 2. The Persian's grave -- 3. Under the bridge -- 4. Danger's flower -- 5. Jaundiced -- 6. East is west -- 7. Coming and going -- 8. Bourbons -- 9. The dog and the dead -- 10. Finders and losers -- 11. Unwrung withers -- 12. In transit -- 13. North of the Sangro -- 14. Psychological warfare at Cassino -- 15. Cassino casualty -- 16. When mum died -- 17. The general and the nightingale -- 18. Mortal -- 19. Liberation -- 20. Not substantial things "Dan Davin was the author of the only substantial body of war fiction written by a New Zealand soldier during any of the wars in which the nation has been engaged. The General and the Nightingale brings together Davin's 20 war stories loosely based on his experiences as 'a wartime scholar-soldier' and those of his fellow soldiers in the British and New Zealand armies. They yield an unparalleled insight into the Anzac soldier during the Mediterranean and African desert campaigns of World War II. Editor Janet Wilson notes they can be read as 'fictionalised accounts rather than imaginative fictions'. Born and raised in a working-class Catholic family in Southland, Davin had recently completed a degree at Oxford when he enlisted in the British Army in 1939. After receiving a commission in 1940 he successfully applied to be transferred to the New Zealand forces. He saw active service in Greece and North Africa, was wounded in Crete, and rose to become General Freyberg's intelligence officer in the Italian campaign. The General and the Nightingale updates The Salamander and the Fire, published in 1986 and long out of print. It features comprehensive notes, a glossary, a chronology, a map of story locations, a bibliography and an introduction by Janet Wilson. It is a companion volume to The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin's Southland short stories (OUP, 2007), which is also being reissued"--Print version World War, 1939-1945- Fiction War stories, New Zealand War stories, New Zealand Short stories, New Zealand. Nz Fiction War fiction War fiction Wilson, Janet 1948-) editor writer of introduction Print version The general and the nightingale 9781988531823