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Friends and family members began donating their paperback books and in the end, over books. Up to that point, americans had served primarily as advisors to south vietnamese battalions fighting against. The virgin soldiers, which was quickly filmed with hywel bennett and lynn redgrave in the leading roles, typified thomass style, by combining. Leslie thomas, author of the novel the virgin soldiers. Return of the virgin soldier express yourself comment. For it is a shame even to speak of the things they do in secret. Leslie thomass bestknown and most enduring novel, published for the first. One way or another the communist guerrilla war in malaya kept a whole british army occupied from 1948 until 1952. We have cause to be uneasy book ii what christians believe 1. The virgin soldiers is a 1966 comic novel by leslie thomas, inspired by his own experiences. The virgin soldiers virgin soldiers trilogy book 1 and over 2 million other books are available for amazon kindle.
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