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Articles of war : a novel
- Title
- Articles of war : a novel / Nick Arvin.
- Author
- Arvin, Nick.
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, [2005], ©2005.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3601.R77 A89 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 178 pages, 179 unnumbered pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "George Tilson is an eighteen-year-old Iowan farm boy who enlists in the army during World War II and is sent to Normandy shortly after D-Day. Nicknamed "Heck" because of his reluctance to curse, he is a typical soldier, willing to do his duty without fuss or much musing about grand goals. The night before he is trucked into the combat zone, Heck meets a young French refugee and her family, an encounter that unsettles him greatly." "It is during his first, horrific exposure to combat that Heck discovers a dark truth about himself: He is a coward. Shamed by his fears and tortured by the never-ending physical dangers around him, he struggles to survive, to live up to the ideal of the American fighting man, and to make sense of his feelings for the young Frenchwoman. As the stark reality of combat - the knowledge that he could cease to exist at any moment - presses in on him, Heck makes a series of choices that would be rational in every human situation except war."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- War stories.
- ISBN
- 0385512775
- LCCN
- 2004050471
- OCLC
- ocm55502462
- SCSB-5161090
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries