Review by Mee_maw -- The Warramunga's War by Greg Kater
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Review by Mee_maw -- The Warramunga's War by Greg Kater
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Warramunga's War" by Greg Kater.]
3 out of 4 stars
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In July 1941 James Munro and Jack O’ Brien meet at the war front and strike a friendship almost immediately. This sees them embark on other duties together, despite the fact that they belong to different battalions. They meet new people of diverse backgrounds, and form lasting friendships wherever the line of duty takes them.
The Warramunga's War imparts a fuller, richer understanding of the World War II campaign in Syria led by Rommel on the Axis powers side, and then takes us to Australia for yet another adventure. The story moves at a steady pace and offers great insight into the lives of those who found themselves at war, and how war disrupted and changed society during the times of World War II. It especially places a special focus on immigrants.
This book will appeal to lovers of fiction, romance and thriller genres, there is just a bit of everything for everyone. It is a fluid story told straight to the point in its own fashion. There is just enough detail to get the reader hooked but without wasting time between scenes, or getting them too invested in supporting characters.
It delivers the simple pleasure of escape into a different time when people wrote each other love letters, and trusting the wrong person had devastating consequences. This serves to make the reader keener on characters that could possibly turn villainous and even then, there is a surprising twist. The author knits together British, American, Australian, German, French and Russian characters to show us their various motivations and their preferred strategies in surviving the War. Without trying too hard, it holds up a distant mirror to the reader.
James and Jack fought on the side of the Allied powers, and through their story we explore the tactics that led to their eventual win against the Axis powers. After their last adventure together one cannot help but wonder what the future holds for this dynamic duo.
This book is a work of art that is wonderfully evocative of another era, and still relevant to our own times. A gripping humane spy thriller mingled together with a love story. There are not too many grand events at the core of the novel, but it is the intertwining of the characters and their stories that steals the show.
I give this book a score of 3 out of 4 because the title is misleading. The author does not reveal too many details about the daily lives of the Warramunga people, and he does not set the stage for a war in the future, while the title suggests there is a War and the Warramunga are at the centre of it. He misses an opportunity to explore racial relations between the Aborigines, and the Pioneers living in the Australian outback. There is potential for the two groups to turn against each other, or unite against a common enemy but he leaves these possibilities unexplored.
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3 out of 4 stars
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In July 1941 James Munro and Jack O’ Brien meet at the war front and strike a friendship almost immediately. This sees them embark on other duties together, despite the fact that they belong to different battalions. They meet new people of diverse backgrounds, and form lasting friendships wherever the line of duty takes them.
The Warramunga's War imparts a fuller, richer understanding of the World War II campaign in Syria led by Rommel on the Axis powers side, and then takes us to Australia for yet another adventure. The story moves at a steady pace and offers great insight into the lives of those who found themselves at war, and how war disrupted and changed society during the times of World War II. It especially places a special focus on immigrants.
This book will appeal to lovers of fiction, romance and thriller genres, there is just a bit of everything for everyone. It is a fluid story told straight to the point in its own fashion. There is just enough detail to get the reader hooked but without wasting time between scenes, or getting them too invested in supporting characters.
It delivers the simple pleasure of escape into a different time when people wrote each other love letters, and trusting the wrong person had devastating consequences. This serves to make the reader keener on characters that could possibly turn villainous and even then, there is a surprising twist. The author knits together British, American, Australian, German, French and Russian characters to show us their various motivations and their preferred strategies in surviving the War. Without trying too hard, it holds up a distant mirror to the reader.
James and Jack fought on the side of the Allied powers, and through their story we explore the tactics that led to their eventual win against the Axis powers. After their last adventure together one cannot help but wonder what the future holds for this dynamic duo.
This book is a work of art that is wonderfully evocative of another era, and still relevant to our own times. A gripping humane spy thriller mingled together with a love story. There are not too many grand events at the core of the novel, but it is the intertwining of the characters and their stories that steals the show.
I give this book a score of 3 out of 4 because the title is misleading. The author does not reveal too many details about the daily lives of the Warramunga people, and he does not set the stage for a war in the future, while the title suggests there is a War and the Warramunga are at the centre of it. He misses an opportunity to explore racial relations between the Aborigines, and the Pioneers living in the Australian outback. There is potential for the two groups to turn against each other, or unite against a common enemy but he leaves these possibilities unexplored.
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