I think we’re still looking for that great WWII novel/memoir. Sledge’s _With
the Old Breed_ is one of a number of very fine books, but great literature
didn’t seem to come out of that war. The Great War generated three that hit
me like a brick: Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger, Goodbye to All That by
Robert Graves and Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis (the last is argubly the
greatest book written about aviation). The Vietnam authors have scored a
couple of good ones. My favorite is Larry Heinemann’s Close Quarters.
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