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Articles Of War

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About the Book

Set just after the Normandy invasion, ARTICLES OF WAR is the story of Heck, an American GI who has recently arrived from Ohio. Utterly inexperienced as a soldier, Heck is paralyzed with fear during his first firefight. Desperate to get away from the front line, he deliberately allows himself to be shot but a fellow private sees and understands what he has done. Sent to a hospital behind the lines, his wound heals quickly and he returns to find that the witness has been promoted and is now his superior.He says nothing to Heck about his act of cowardice but a little while later sends him to the rear for a special assignment, without telling him what that assignment is.In fact, he has been assigned to the firing squad which will execute Private Eddie Slovak (in reality the only GI shot for desertion during the Second World War and the first since the Civil War).This is Heck's excruciating moral punishment.He, himself a deserter, is forced to shoot another deserter.Nick Arvin draws the reader into the unimaginable fear, violence and chaos of the war zone. Like the very best war fiction - Pat Barker's REGENERATION trilogy, Sebastian Faulks' BIRDSONG -he shows how ordinary lives are transformed by extraordinary events.

About the Author :
Nick Arvin is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the recipient of the Michener Fellowship. He is the author of a collection of short stories, In Electric Eden, and this is his first novel. In 2006 he received the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Nick lives in Denver, Colorado where he works as a forensic engineer.

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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. [A] short, furious novel... Articles of War presents a tough and visceral vision of war as a universe unto itself and a moral crucible A gem of a book. . . Arvin evokes [battle] in perfect, riveting pitch... Beautifully written and timely Arvin's first novel is an elegant, understated testament to the stoicism, accidental cowardice and occasional heroics of men under fire. Arvin is... capable of sentences that stop you cold


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780099486787
  • Publisher: Cornerstone
  • Publisher Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd
  • Height: 197 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0099486784
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jul 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 140 gr


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