The Big War

"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 12/04/2001
ISBN: 9780060934736
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.28w x 0.93d