Summary
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THE RAIN CAME in squalls, in slanting silver sheets and bounced on the helmets and ponchos in a million little bursts of light, ran glistening down the folds of the camouflaged fabric and merged with the streams flowing along the two ruts of road.
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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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- Title The Big War
- Author Anton Myrer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-12-04
- ISBN 9780060934736 / 0060934735
- Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.28 x 0.93 in (20.37 x 13.41 x 2.36 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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