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Anton Myrer (1922–1996)

Autor/a de Once an Eagle

15+ obres 1,456 Membres 24 Ressenyes 1 preferits

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Obres de Anton Myrer

Once an Eagle (1968) 798 exemplars
The Last Convertible (1978) 423 exemplars
A Green Desire (1982) 125 exemplars
The Big War (1958) 73 exemplars
Intruder (1965) 19 exemplars
The Tiger Waits (1973) 7 exemplars
Evil under the sun (1951) 1 exemplars
Once An Eagle r 1 exemplars
Açık Araba 1 exemplars
Uma Vez Uma Águia 1 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Myrer, Anton Olmstead
Data de naixement
1922-11-03
Data de defunció
1996-01-19
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Llocs de residència
Californië, USA
Saugerties, New York, USA
Educació
Harvard University (1947)
Organitzacions
US Marine Corps

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This book is an absolute tome -- 1300 pages in print. That length was a little daunting, but I decided to read it because of the very good reviews, and because it's used as a text for West Point cadets. I was curious why.

It's an excellent book on leadership, contrasting Sam Damon (the guy everyone wants to be) and Courtney Massengale (the guy most folks don't). I imagined, before I started, that each of them would be a caricature. That's not the case. Each is an interesting and complex character, though that's truer of Damon than of Massengale. The two are surrounded by interesting friends, family and colleagues, and those relationships are deep and nicely drawn.

Damon's military career begins just before WWI, and the book closes in the run-up to the Vietnam War. Damon is the central character throughout. It could, maybe, have ended earlier, but it kept me engaged all the way to the end. There's come casual racism and sexism in the book, but Damon (and Myrer) are ahead of their time in their challenges to those tropes.

I never served in the military and have certainly never seen combat. I found the combat scenes in the book absolutely gripping. I bet that Myrer did a good job capturing life in the Army in general, including the time Damon served during peacetime.

If you're wondering whether this book is for you, I think that Steinbeck's East of Eden is a reasonable comparison -- sweeping, generational, complex characters working against the cultural and social backgrounds of the time. The characters are equally interesting, I thought, and the story every bit as gripping.
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mikeolson2000 | Hi ha 12 ressenyes més | Dec 27, 2023 |
Proslulý americký válečný román odehrávající se za 2.sv.války v Tichomoří na ostrově Feneráhan -- smrt a život, život a smrt v divoké džungli.
 
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stpetr | May 25, 2022 |
The only thing I can say about this book is that it was the best novel I have ever read.
 
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JosephKingman | Hi ha 12 ressenyes més | Jul 17, 2021 |
I always resist rating something lower than the average but I just didn't care about most of the characters in this book. Considering it is a character-driven novel and a long one at that, it felt like a failing. I did enjoy all of the WWII passages though.
 
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ltfitch1 | Hi ha 7 ressenyes més | Jun 5, 2016 |

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Membres
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Valoració
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Ressenyes
24
ISBN
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Preferit
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