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During his exposure to combat, George "Heck" Tilson, an eighteen-year-old Iowa farm boy sent to Normandy just after D-Day, discovers that he is a coward and, tormented by the perils around him, struggles to survive the horrors of war.
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"Breathtakingly fine. Resonate in tone, surprising...eviscerating in its honesty, faceted in its complexity. Mr Arvin has accomplished what only a handful of writers have managed - he has crafted a spare and perfect masterwork." (Mark Spragg)
"[A] short, furious novel... Articles of War presents a tough and visceral vision of war as a universe unto itself and a moral crucible" (New York Times)
"A gem of a book. . . Arvin evokes [battle] in perfect, riveting pitch... Beautifully written and timely" (Washington Post)
"Arvin's first novel is an elegant, understated testament to the stoicism, accidental cowardice and occasional heroics of men under fire." (Publishers Weekly)
"Arvin is... capable of sentences that stop you cold" (Newsweek)
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"[A] short, furious novel... Articles of War presents a tough and visceral vision of war as a universe unto itself and a moral crucible" (New York Times)
"A gem of a book. . . Arvin evokes [battle] in perfect, riveting pitch... Beautifully written and timely" (Washington Post)
"Arvin's first novel is an elegant, understated testament to the stoicism, accidental cowardice and occasional heroics of men under fire." (Publishers Weekly)
"Arvin is... capable of sentences that stop you cold" (Newsweek)
A heartbreaking and compelling WWII story of what war means for one young man
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0786273178
- ISBN 13 9780786273171
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages264
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