The Big War |
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| Authors: | Myrer, Anton |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins e-books |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC000000, FIC002000, FIC032000, FIC014050 |
| ISBN: | 9780061856730, Related ISBNs: 0061856738, 9780060934736, 9780061856730 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 512, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
“One must go back to All Quiet on the Western Front to find another novel as charged as this one!” — Philadelphia Inquirer
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They were our husbands, our fathers, our lovers, our sons. They were Americans and Marines. And this is their story: The Big War, Anton Myrer's panoramic novel of Marines in the Pacific in World War II.
This is the story of Alan Newcombe, the Boston society Harvard man; Danny Kantaylis, the natural-born leader; Jay O'Neill, the barroom scrapper. Myrer does not glorify war; he does not flinch from describing what the actual experience of warfare was like for a desperate group of Marines trapped in some of the worst fighting conditions of the war. We learn about their lives at home and their fates on the battlefield.
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