Name Gun Buster Program creator Gainax Final episode date July 7, 1989 | Role Animated series Directors Hideaki Anno | |
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Genres Adventure fiction, Mecha Anime, Military science fiction Similar Gurren Lagann, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, Devil Hunter Yohko | ||
First episode date October 7, 1988 | ||
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Gun Buster was the pseudonymous author of a series of novels about the British exploits in World War II. His works have been attributed to John Charles Austin and his son, Captain Richard Campion Austin (25 May 1912–13 Sept 2001), who was a captain in the Royal Artillery.
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Writing during World War II his approach was one of mitigating depressing aspects of the war. Freda Barrymore, reviewing his book, Return via Dunkirk, in the Townsville Bulletin, said:
His book Battle Dress consisted of a series of sketches relating to the British army in France and Dunkirk. The reviewer in the Launceston Examiner said:
In her review of Battle Dress, reviewer Eleanor Wood of the Montreal Gazette said that Gun Buster "lets the reader see that battle as it actually happened" and noted that "his real name is not given, but his books bear the unmistakeable touch of a good writer".
The Sydney Morning Herald reviewer stated:
In a 1946 review, W. J. Hurlow of the Ottawa Citizen lauded Gun Buster's books as "the work of a skilled writer gifted with powers of observation and description amounting almost to genius", and found the latest in the series, Zero Hours, "a series of incidents in the desert wars", to be "quite on a level with the author's depictions of battle scenes on other fronts".
Reviews of Gun Buster's fourth book, Grand Barage were also generally positive. The reviewer in The Mercury commented:
Several Australian newspapers and magazines reprinted large segments of his book Return via Dunkirk and Battle Dress in weekly instalments.