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William Lawrence Nagle (4 June 1947 – 5 March 2002) was an Australian soldier, author, actor, and screenwriter.
Jan 1, 1975 · William Nagle. Based on the author's experience in the Australian Army, The Odd Angry Shot is the seminal account of Australian soldiers in the Vietnam brief and bracing, tragic yet darkly funny. This classic Australian novel won Australia's National Book Council Award and became an iconic film. 98 pages, Paperback.
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Nagle wrote the screenplay for Death of a Soldier (1986) and co-wrote the screenplay for The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989), both about the Vietnam War. He worked in film and television for many years in the United States before his death, in 2002.
William Nagle is the author of The odd angry shot (3.97 avg rating, 112 ratings, 15 reviews, published 1975), The State Of The Question (0.0 avg rating, ...
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William Lawrence Nagle was an Australian soldier, author, actor, and screenwriter. His first book, The Odd Angry Shot, written after his return from the Vietnam War and exit from the army, traced the lives of a group of Australian soldiers from their departure from Australia, their rotation in South Vietnam, and return to Australia.
Nagle served as a soldier in Vietnam 1966-1968. He has worked as a screenwriter in the film industry, including in the USA and Great Britain, since 1979, and has received a number of awards. His only novel, The Odd Angry Shot, was made into a feature film in 1979, with a screenplay adaptation by Tom Jeffrey.
The Odd Angry Shot is the seminal account of Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War. Brief and bracing, tragic yet darkly funny, it portrays a close-knit group of knockabout SAS fighters: their mateship, homesickness and fears; their practical jokes, drinking and fighting. The enemy is not just the.
