User talk:Speewah

Frederick Manning
Hi,

Thanks for the input to List of films based on war books.

I have not personally heard of this book. Is it notable somehow? somewhere? In Australia perhaps?

There are a lot of war memoirs. I don't list ones that I happen to be familiar with personally, but rather ones that have a long-standing reputation, where there's a consensus that's been around forever. For World War One specifically, as opposed to say Bosnia, the books were written long ago, and there's a reputation there, or there isn't.

If the book for example is considered a classic in Oz, then a citation to that effect would be valuable. At present, neither author nor title is resolving to a page, which at the moment implies a lack of noteworthiness for the book.

Thanks for the contribution, Varlaam (talk) 14:31, 27 September 2009 (UTC) (War Books Editor)


 * Hi Varlaam


 * It is regarded as a classic in Oz and the UK. It was long out of print and only republished in the 1970s.


 * Re: Author's name - it does not resolve to a page as I misspelled it - it should be Frederic Manning - he has his own Wikipedia page.


 * Speewah (talk) 21:41, 28 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi Speewah, I just dropped by to tell you that I had earlier standardized your contribution and placed it in sequence. Thanks. You're from Oz yourself?
 * Varlaam (talk) 16:32, 30 September 2009 (UTC) (in Toronto)