Beach Red : A Novel.
by Bowman, Peter. [Association, John Ransom Lewis, 1917-1997 ; essay, John P. Marquand ; design, Stefan Salter]
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New York : Random House, 1945., 1945. Good. [1st edition] ; 122 pp. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 45-10493 ; LC: PZ3.B6843; PS3503.O875 ; OCLC: 280360 ; light olive green and red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; dampstain on bottom of spine ; essay by John P. Marquand laid in ; The history of a single hour in the life of a soldier on the morning of a Pacific Island invasion. ; "Mr. Bowman, out of his own experience [as a military engineer in the southwest Pacific theater], has written a different and unusual book that can stand on its own merits. It is a book with a very broad appeal, for its pages give a picture of the thoughts and fears common to everyone who has ever worn a uniform, no matter what role, heroic or otherwise, he may have played in war. Beach Red may be called a pre-view to action rather than a realistic record. It can best be interpreted as a study of all the things that run through a soldier's mind during days of training or on lonely nights in barracks or aboard a transport going East or West. And it reveals the seldom confessed truth--that everyone who goes to war lives through a thousand battles and dies a thousand deaths...Its style, which is split prose rather than verse, has the staccato flow of introspective thought."--essay ; Signature of John Ransom Lewis, the Poet Laureate of Georgia, on the front endpaper ; G
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- Joseph Valles - Books (US)
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- Title
- Beach Red : A Novel.
- Author
- Bowman, Peter. [Association, John Ransom Lewis, 1917-1997 ; essay, John P. Marquand ; design, Stefan Salter]
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, 1945.
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- world war ii two pacific island invasion soldiers gi joes japanese split prose
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- Catalog 60 - General;
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