The Big War

Zusatztext “Magnificent. . . more terrifying, more convincing battle scenes have not been described.” Informationen zum Autor While attending Harvard University, Anton Myrer (1922-1996) enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps immediately after the Pearl Harbor attacks. He served for three years during World War II until he was wounded in the Pacific. He is also the author of the novels The Big War , The Last Convertible , and A Green Desire . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung “One must go back to All Quiet on the Western Front to find another novel as charged as this one!” —  Philadelphia Inquirer NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Anton Myrer, Myrer Anton
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2001
• EAN: 9780060934736
• ISBN: 978-0-06-093473-6
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Horror, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Occult fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction, War, combat and military adventure fiction, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century, FICTION / World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Action & Adventure, FICTION: War & Military, FICTION: Historical / World War II, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Adventure / action fiction