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The Gallery

by: John Horne Burns (author)

ISBN: 9780436077456 (0436077450)

Publish date: 1970

Publisher: Secker & Warburg

Pages no: 342

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, History, Literature, Cultural, Italy, War, World War II, Glbt, Gay

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This is a WWII novel, but not one that you would expect. This depicts the Greatest Generation through contemporary eyes, not misty revisionism. They're flawed, in turns cowardly, venal, brave, and compassionate. Combat rarely comes into it, the war is something they dread, or something that's alread...

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11 years ago

http://Garmct.booklikes.com aka Grasshopper 4.0 Portraits of War's Impact

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John Horne Burns' The Gallery isn't always pretty, but neither is life. It takes us on a journey into the hearts and minds of an unlikely mix of American servicemen and vanquished Neapolitans after the Allied invasion of Southern Italy. In a series of nine portraits, we meet a few honorable American...

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