"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 ...
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"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.
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Add this copy of The Big War to cart. $13.58, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Berkley Books.
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Reviewers at the time compared this work to the Iliad, War and Peace, the Red Badge of Courage, and The Naked and the Dead. Contemporary reviewers might compare it to Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers. In any case, this is a stunning depiction of the Pacific front (and the home front) through they eyes of three young soldiers (and their families) during WWII. Written by an ex-marine (Myrer) who was wounded during his service in the Pacific.
