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The Ace
In THE ACE, four Americans - a 20-year-old social outcast, a breezily iconoclastic Army officer, a ruthless US senator, and a guilt-ridden heiress - are inexorably drawn together in their struggles to deal with America's chaotic involvement in World War I. Their interwoven destinies lead from poverty-stricken slums through the opulence of 1917-1918 Washington, London, and ...more
Paperback, 300 pages
Published
October 28th 2008
by Blue River Press
(first published October 2008)
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I enjoyed this audiobook. More contemplative than what you might expect from a novel with this title, I found the character studies intriguing in the context of their time. WW1 is the great forgotten war given the ferociousness of WW2. Considering that there are no surviving veterans that saw active service, we depend on memoirs and novels to relay the horrors of this particular conflict. The main protagonist is John King, a recruit with emotional baggage. The secondary characters comprise corru...more
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