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The Big War
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Anton Myrer
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
...morePaperback, 512 pages
Published
December 1st 2001
by Harper Perennial
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I gave it 2 stars, because the author fought in the Pacific war, and a few of the battle chapters do seem reasonably authentic. Not all; most of them are pure fantasy.
This is genuine pulp fiction. If you like pulp fiction - Raymond Chandler etc - you'll probably love it. Full of two dimensional characters, groan-inducing conversations, outrageously pretentious attempts at profundity, tacky love scenes - it's got it all!
As 50s pulp it was historically interesting, but it ...more
This is genuine pulp fiction. If you like pulp fiction - Raymond Chandler etc - you'll probably love it. Full of two dimensional characters, groan-inducing conversations, outrageously pretentious attempts at profundity, tacky love scenes - it's got it all!
As 50s pulp it was historically interesting, but it ...more
An exercise in mannered writing. I kept reading to see if it got any better - it didn't!
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started, but couldnt get into it. read to close to the last convertible. will pick it up again soon.
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Anton Myrer, who died of leukemia in 1996, was a best-selling author whose themes were America's loss of innocence and the use and abuse of power. He is particularly remembered for The Last Convertible (1978), a summation of the American experience during and after World War II, and for Once an Eagle (1968), which traces the life of a regular Army officer and his family from before World War I to ...more
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