New York: William Morrow and Company, (1957).
Price: $275.00
Hardcover. Second printing. Offsetting on the front pastedown from some now removed clippings, boards a little smudged, else very good in very good dust jacket with some rubbing and small chips and tears. Inscribed by the author: "Detroit, Mich. To my friend Ralph Loveland who'll meet some good American fighters in this book. As ever, Sam Marshall." Col. Ralph Loveland was highly decorated in bother World Wars, and afterwards was the Commander of the Michigan National Guard. Marshall developed a system, revolutionary in its time, of interviewing numerous participants in military actions in order to get the overall picture. Uncredited basis for the Lewis Milestone film of the same name featuring Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn and George Peppard, which stands alongside Milestone's earlier classics, *All Quiet on the Western Front* and *A Walk in the Sun*, as one of the best war films ever made.
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