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The Young Lions - 'Irwin Shaw', 'James Salter'
The Young Lions
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The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other... show more
The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780226751290 (0226751295)
ASIN: 0226751295
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 696
Edition language: English
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Maven Books
Maven Books rated it
5.0 The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
I saw The Young Lions mentioned on a list of great WWII books, and it definitely lives up to that label. It's hard to summarize the book in a short review, especially since so much goes on in the book, but it is really quite good. The writing style makes everything quite vivid, and I had a hard ti...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
4.0 The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
bookshelves: film-only, winter-20132014, published-1948, nazi-related, germany, under-1000-ratings, war, wwii Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from February 15 to 16, 2014 IMDB description: The destiny of three soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian Diestl approves les...
JeffreyKeeten
JeffreyKeeten rated it
”This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assault of the animal world upon the house of the human being. I don’t know what you saw in Africa and Italy, but I know what I saw in Russia and Poland. We made a cemetery a thousand miles long and a thou...
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