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Anton Myrer (1922–1996)

Autore di Once an Eagle

15+ opere 1,457 membri 24 recensioni 1 preferito

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Opere di Anton Myrer

Once an Eagle (1968) 800 copie
The Last Convertible (1978) 422 copie
A Green Desire (1982) 125 copie
The Big War (1958) 73 copie
Intruder (1965) 19 copie
The Tiger Waits (1973) 7 copie
Evil under the sun (1951) 1 copia
Açık Araba 1 copia

Opere correlate

Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1968 v04 (1968) — Collaboratore — 49 copie
American Men at Arms (1964) — Collaboratore — 10 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Myrer, Anton Olmstead
Data di nascita
1922-11-03
Data di morte
1996-01-19
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di residenza
Californië, USA
Saugerties, New York, USA
Istruzione
Harvard University (1947)
Organizzazioni
US Marine Corps

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This book is an absolute tome -- 1300 pages in print. That length was a little daunting, but I decided to read it because of the very good reviews, and because it's used as a text for West Point cadets. I was curious why.

It's an excellent book on leadership, contrasting Sam Damon (the guy everyone wants to be) and Courtney Massengale (the guy most folks don't). I imagined, before I started, that each of them would be a caricature. That's not the case. Each is an interesting and complex character, though that's truer of Damon than of Massengale. The two are surrounded by interesting friends, family and colleagues, and those relationships are deep and nicely drawn.

Damon's military career begins just before WWI, and the book closes in the run-up to the Vietnam War. Damon is the central character throughout. It could, maybe, have ended earlier, but it kept me engaged all the way to the end. There's come casual racism and sexism in the book, but Damon (and Myrer) are ahead of their time in their challenges to those tropes.

I never served in the military and have certainly never seen combat. I found the combat scenes in the book absolutely gripping. I bet that Myrer did a good job capturing life in the Army in general, including the time Damon served during peacetime.

If you're wondering whether this book is for you, I think that Steinbeck's East of Eden is a reasonable comparison -- sweeping, generational, complex characters working against the cultural and social backgrounds of the time. The characters are equally interesting, I thought, and the story every bit as gripping.
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mikeolson2000 | 12 altre recensioni | Dec 27, 2023 |
Proslulý americký válečný román odehrávající se za 2.sv.války v Tichomoří na ostrově Feneráhan -- smrt a život, život a smrt v divoké džungli.
 
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stpetr | May 25, 2022 |
The only thing I can say about this book is that it was the best novel I have ever read.
 
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JosephKingman | 12 altre recensioni | Jul 17, 2021 |
I always resist rating something lower than the average but I just didn't care about most of the characters in this book. Considering it is a character-driven novel and a long one at that, it felt like a failing. I did enjoy all of the WWII passages though.
 
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ltfitch1 | 7 altre recensioni | Jun 5, 2016 |

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15
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Utenti
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Popolarità
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Voto
3.9
Recensioni
24
ISBN
81
Lingue
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