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" The big war / "
Anton Myrer.
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BL
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989954
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b744324
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| Main Entry
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Myrer, Anton.
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| Title & Author
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The big war /\ Anton Myrer.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Perennial ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Perennial Books,, 2001, ©1957.
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502 pages ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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0060934735
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: 9780060934736
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| Abstract
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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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United States.
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United States.
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World War, 1939-1945, Fiction.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3563.Y74B54 2001
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