Ensign O'Toole And Me
By William J. Lederer
To The Rear March
By Joseph Coogan
"The wackiest novel of army life since 'No Time For Sargeants' and 'See Here, Private Hargrove'." "The wartime miss-adventures of a GI out for danger, glory and girls!"
Night in Manila
By John Langdon
"Night in Manila is the story of a sailor on leave in a sinful city of violence and intrigue. Take any girl you like… I smiled at the pretty one in the yellow dress. When she smiled back she seemed shy. But I soon found out that there wasn’t a trace of shyness in her whole body. My mouth went dry and my heart was pounding. I’d heard plenty about this place, and I knew just what to expect next…"
A Long Way From Home
By Vern Sneider
"Adventures of American soldiers abroad…wonderful tales of GI’s and civilians, living, loving, laughing, fighting – at war with the army, each other, and themselves."
Bamboo
By Robert O. Bowen
"Tin can sailor. Against the background of a booming Pacific port, a tough sailor struggles to choose between duty to his ship and his desire for a beautiful native girl… This what the Washington Star said about this brilliant novel of the peacetime Navy: “…these sailors emerge as clearly as the soldiers did in ‘From Here to Eternity’.”
Look Down in Mercy
By Walter Baxter
"A savage novel of forbidden love. Blunt and shocking. War in the Far East, with all its horror and madness, is the theme of this blunt and shocking novel that leaves nothing to the imagination. A realistic novel of one man’s descent to emotional ruin during the fiery crucible of war – the story of Tony Kent whose sordid affair with a Eurasian nurse drove him down the road to violence and damnation."
G.I. Girls
By John Jakes
"A compassionate novel of war in the Pacific as seen through the eyes of the girls in the WAC. This was 1st Sgt. Janet Conn. The WACS who served under her saw her as a calm, efficient, and understanding 1st Sgt. Her company commander considered her sullen and insubordinate – a definite problem. To Pilot-Major Bowen she was warm, vibrant, and loving – a woman to remember. To herself she was a coward, forcing herself into danger to prove she wasn’t afraid."
The Glory Jumpers
By Delano Stagg
"An epic novel of eleven renegade paratroopers on a suicide mission behind the German lines during the Normandy invasion. Amidst the tumult and chaos that marked the Allied assault on the Normandy beaches, eleven Americans – prisoners from an Army stockade – were released and sent out to do a dangerous job behind the German lines."
The Run From The Mountain
By William Groninger
"Meet Herman Wakely – in this story of his worldly enlightenment in the Army of Occupation, where the law was survival of the slickest, and license, pillage and corruption the order of the day."
Far From Home (The Wind Cannot Read)
By Richard Mason
"A soldier and an Asian girl."
Tour of Duty
By Walter J. Sheldon
"They were all ugly Americans to the people of Saruashi, and in a way Paul couldn’t blame the Japanese. Each night his fellow Americans from the Air Force base swarmed over the town, brawling, drinking, offending the girls. Now the agitators and terrorists were moving in, inflaming old hates, and threatening the only thing Paul really cared about… his idyllic affair with Mariko. She was a girl who could love and hate with every fiber of her small, flawless body. But she could not do both, he knew, at the same time."
Sayonara.
By James A. Michener.
Sayonara.
By James A. Michener.
South Pacific Fury.
By James Macdonnell.
"The message was top priority, and incomplete. The man who sent it was trapped on Japanese-occupied Golo Island. Captain Kenyon and his torpedo crew were ordered into enemy waters on the desperate chance that Coastwatcher Tom Cook was still alive – and that his message was vitally important to the survival of the U.S. Pacific fleet. A rescue mission triggers a harrowing sea-chase with one U.S. torpedo boat against a Japanese armada!"
The World of Suzie Wong.
By Richard Mason.
"A worldly young artist and a pretty Chinese girl from a Hong Kong brothel meet in one of the most unusual and memorable love stories of the year…" "Reminiscent of Somerset Maugham at his storytelling best… Suzie Wong is enchanting – New York Herald Tribune."
Sayonara
By James A. Michener
“In this challenging novel, Pullitzer Prize winner James A. Michener probes unflinchingly into the question of why so many American men prefer the tender and submissive women of the exotic East.”
Sayonara
By James A. Michener
The explosion of interest in Tiki, or Polynesian Pop, was in large part fueled by soldiers returning from the Pacific. They brought back with them stories and souvenirs from the Polynesian Islands. America had discovered the alluring South Pacific and the mysterious Far East. The pulp fiction on this page is all about those GIs from the greatest generation and the clash of cultures.
pulp fiction 3 - east meets west
Khan Tiki Mon’s collection of vintage paperbacks with a Tiki, island, South Seas, tropical, or nautical theme.