The Armorbearers: And Three Other Stories of War |
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... who can swim like a fish , lick anything bar a ten ton truck , fly through the air with the greatest of ease , climb like a goanna , beller like an air raid warnin ' and who's got the unbreakable sticky tube . You know Tarzan , king of ...
... who can swim like a fish , lick anything bar a ten ton truck , fly through the air with the greatest of ease , climb like a goanna , beller like an air raid warnin ' and who's got the unbreakable sticky tube . You know Tarzan , king of ...
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... who's slumped over the wreckage of the Bren , the legs and buttocks of him dead and limp in the smouldering crater the first shell left . " Oh , God ! " our sergeant gasps . " O God ! " He pulls Grover's shoulder about , shakes him face ...
... who's slumped over the wreckage of the Bren , the legs and buttocks of him dead and limp in the smouldering crater the first shell left . " Oh , God ! " our sergeant gasps . " O God ! " He pulls Grover's shoulder about , shakes him face ...
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... who get up we fight . The ridge turns into a spectacle of wild animals in fantastically violent combat and sweated ... who's trying to regain his feet and hacks his head with a sword . I bayonet the officer , kick him as he goes under ...
... who get up we fight . The ridge turns into a spectacle of wild animals in fantastically violent combat and sweated ... who's trying to regain his feet and hacks his head with a sword . I bayonet the officer , kick him as he goes under ...
Common terms and phrases
ARMORBEARERS Aussie barge bastard bayonet beach beat em biscuits blokes bloody body boots breath Bren bullets Captain Gregg Chelsea cigarette confetti damn dark dead deck Denby Destroyer Dickinson Dobbs drag drop eyes face gettin Gordon grass grenade grin ground Grover guess Halliday hands hard haversack head hell helmet HOLD YOUR FIRE incredible Japs Jo's jungle Keith knees laugh legs look machete machine-gun mates McKuen mouth Murphy night nodded O'Malley Okay perimeter wall Pinaldi Pitt's ridge rifle Rockliff ROOSTER AND EGG saluted sar-major sarge says sergeant Sergeant Murphy Sergeant-Major Colley shell shirt shoulder Shut sigh silence sleep slicker smile smoke soldiers Solski sorry stared Steve Pitt sweat Tarzan teeth tell There's thing THWUMPP Tom Denby Tom's town Trask tree turned undergrowth wait walked what's who's Wirraway yards Yeah Ypres