Ned Calmer Boeken

In its description of the experiences of twelve Americans - eleven men and one woman - it brings alive the sounds, sights and smells of warfare on even level of experience. In its picture of a teen-age infantry private, desperately trying to prove his bravery, the tender love affair between a young WAC and a courageous officer, the ruthless ambition of a scheming war correspondent, it eloquently portrays what it is like to live, and die, in war.