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1."Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
Rosemary's Baby
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Romeo and Juliet
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Rebecca
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Reach for the Sky
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Daphne du Maurier. Published 1938.
2.A book by Neville Shute was originally titled one of the below. The Risng Sun lads were being naughty boys in Asia a few years before he wrote it. Hardly a title to reach a wide audience and rake in the nickels and dimes and start a line of your own signature perfume or after shave. He wisely took the advice of Kylie Kardashian and changed it.
Rudolph Reindeer and Rupunzel Reject Roxanne's Request for a Refund
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The Rape of the the Sabine Women
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The Rape of Nanking
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The Rape of Malaya
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Re-titled 'A Town Like Alice'. Published 1948.
3.RAF trainee pilot loses his legs playing Tom Cruise just before Time Magazine's 'Man of the Year 1938' decided that "If they have let me have Austria, the Sudetenland and the rest of Czechoslavkia... I might raise the ante and ask for Poland."
Raise the Bridge, Don't Lower the River
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Reach for the Sky
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The Remarkable Mister Pennypacker
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The Red Badge of Courage
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Douglas Bader is an example of rising above a set back with great determination.
4.A young, foolish twit joins the Bluebellies to fight against the Grit Slurpers. Runs from the first sound of cannon fire. Redeems himself admirably.
Red River
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The Ridge and the River
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The Red Badge of Courage
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The Raid on Rommel
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Stephen Crane. Published date not certified. There are still disputes amongst historians about which battle he is describing. It must have been the pre-Lee/Jackson combination. Antietam? The Seven's Day Battle? Stonewall Jackson did not show his true colours until he took out Joseph Hooker. And brilliantly. By all accounts though, Stonewall Jackson was a a bit ofqre becoming powerful combination.
5.Australian soldiers in PNG. The boredom, horror, futility and tropical disease of war.