Big War

<p><strong>One must go back to <em>All Quiet on the Western Front</em> to find another novel as charged as this one! -- <em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em></strong></p><p><strong>NATIONAL BESTSELLER</strong></p> <p><strong>They were our husbands our fathers our lovers our sons. They were Americans and Marines. And this is their story: <em>The Big War</em> Anton Myrer's panoramic novel of Marines in the Pacific in World War II. </strong></p><p>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.<br/></p>