Adventure Fiction Set in the 1950s: James Michener

The list author says:
	"Michener's first brought him fame and a Pulitzer prize, a memorable series of interlacing short stories set in the wartime Pacific. In the mid fourties, which technically eliminates it from this list."

The list author says:
	"Not Michner, but I hope with a slight flavour of his work. The South China Sea in 1951. A soldier copes with an uncertain peacetime future and a disastrous entanglement with a precocious schoolgirl."

The list author says:
	"Again not quite the fifties (1949.) A bildungsroman, or coming of age novel, which is partly an autobiography of the author. Set in Pennsylvania, much closer to home than the exotic South Pacific."

The list author says:
	"I hope the spirit of Mr. Michener will forgive me if I slip in a pice of Future History, a style he never tried, with my second novel, "Zorn," set not in the East, but the South of France."

The list author says:
	"The East must have been well into Michener's blood, for he returned there for this peacetime sequel to "Tales of the South Pacific" in 1951."

The list author says:
	"Pub. 1953. Early fifties, & the USA became involved in the Korean War, and Michener - with the horrors of the Second World War not far behind him - told of the hopes and fears of this war's combatants"

The list author says:
	"1954. One of the best known of Michener's works, the story of racist attitudes during the American occupation of post-war Japan."

The list author says:
	"1959. The first of the great saga's for which Michener is so well known, setting his story into the rich history of Hawaii."

The list author says:
	"1962 - I couldn't resist slipping into the sixties. This one is so good, a favourite of mine, and so relevant to the ongoing strife in Afghanistan."

The list author says:
	"What the hell, why not this one too, though published in 1965? A bit clunky in parts, but none the less an entertaining story of Israel's troubled history, conquest after conquest, up to modern times."