TY - BOOK AU - Remiger, Tom, TI - Soldiers SN - 9781922268686 PY - 2020///. CY - Melbourne, VIC : PB - Text Publishing, KW - Soldiers KW - Fiction KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Historical fiction KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 21st century KW - Psychological fiction N1 - Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information) N2 - Breen sometimes thought sourly that Tiger Jackson would have made a good fascist. He told unreliable stories, he liked power and admiration, and he had all three military virtues- self-belief, luck, and an eye for the main chance. Despite all this, Breen liked him. Somehow it was impossible not to. After the death of Corporal Daniel Cousins in what is apparently a training accident, a young officer, Lieutenant Breen, becomes obsessed by the case. Was Cousins murdered by one of his own? Breen's investigation, as well as his unanticipated love affair with a superior officer, threatens the unity of his comrades as they wait for the suffering to come in the Battle of Crete-one of the defining encounters of World War II. Soldiers is about what happens to men who go to war. Tom Remiger's compelling first novel tells a story of intense feeling and unforeseen experience in a strange and distant world ER -