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The ocean in the closet

a novel
2007
Nine-year-old Helen Johnson seeks help from her great-uncle Hideo in the Japanese town of Kamakura, in orderto help her mother deal with lives that had been separated by war.

Colonel Chabert

1997
Colonel Chabert, a decorated hero in the Napoleonic War, returns home after a long convalescence from a disfiguring wound to find he has been declared dead, his wife remarried and his pension gone, and hires a popular young lawyer in an attempt to regain his life and wealth.

The Manchurian candidate

2004
An American serviceman in the Korean War is captured and brainwashed by the Chinese. When he returns to the U.S. as a war hero, he begins to act on the mental programming directing him to assassinate an important political figure.

The trumpet-major

John Loveday, a soldier in the war with Buonaparte, and Robert his brother, first mate in the merchant service : a tale
1975

The last of the doughboys

the forgotten generation and their forgotten world war
2013
Collected over ten years, presents interviews with the last remaining World War I veterans, aged 101 to 113, to paint a picture of a time and a generation that, despite memorials and history lessons, is quickly fading away.

You'll never know

2009
A single mother attempts to uncover and re-tell her father's experiences as a soldier in World War II while reconciling her relationship with him as well as her personal life.

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