| RUSSELLBRADDON | Which Australian novelist vividly described his experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war on the Bur |
| PRIMOLEVI | Jewish Italian writer who recounted his experiences as an inmate at Auschwitz in If This Is A Man (5,4) |
| NIGELKRAUTH | Which Australian novelist and academic wrote the political thriller Freedom Highway (1999) (5,6) |
| SUSANNA | Roughing It in the Bush is about British-born writer ___ Moodie's experiences as a settler in 19th-century Ontario |
| AGNESGREY | Anne Bronte novel based on her own experiences as a governess |
| ORWELL | Pen name of an author who describes his experiences of "healthy, outdoor work" as a hop-picker in his diaries, an essay and in his second novel, A Clergyman's Daughter (6) |
| EVELYNWAUGH | Who wrote the novel Scoop based on his experiences of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia? (6,5) |
| NOEL | Oasis member who once described his brother (and bandmate) as "a man with a fork in a world of soup" |
| ALLQUIETON | Erich Remarque's war novel based on his experiences in the German army, ... The Western Front (3,5,2) |
| GALILEO | Forename of the astronomer who described his telescopic discoveries including four moons of Jupiter in his treatise Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) (7) |
| LAWRENCE | T. E. -; soldier who described his experience of the Arab Revolt in Seven Pillars of Wisdom (8) |
| VOTE | It was 82-0 in the Senate for declaration of war on Japan |
| COBB | Subject of the biography "War on the Basepaths" |
| ONONDAGA | Double-turreted Union warship that spent the entire war on the James River |
| OWEN | Wilfred _, British poet and soldier, whose work was influenced by his experiences in the First World War (4) |
| EMPIREOFTHESUN | 1984 novel by J G Ballard that draws extensively on his experiences in World War II |
| RUBICON | Caesar effectively declared war on the senate when he crossed which river? (7) |
| GEISHA | She goes with a U.S. private working as a Japanese hostess (6) |
| HITMONKEY | Animated series on Hulu with Jason Sudeikis as a Japanese macaque's ghostly mentor: Hyph. |
| OLDS | Lump of earth, especially clay, and one of the alternative names for burdock (Arctium lappa) is the ___ bur (4) |
