Guard of Honor Download

Author: James Gould Cozzens
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0156376091

Guard of Honor

Guard of Honor is a neglected masterpiece that stands comparison with the greatest novels of the Second World War--essayist Noel Perrin deemed it "probably the best war novel of the twentieth century. Get Guard of Honor literature books for free.


James Gould Cozzens's Guard of Honor won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. The novel balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days in September 1943 to a racial incident on a U.S. Army airbase in Florida. The reader is acutely aware of the war raging abroad and the effect it has had, or will have, on the multitude of servicemen who populate Cozzens's immense canvas. As Noel Perrin commented in The Washington Post Book World: "There is material for two or three hund Check Guard of Honor our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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James Gould Cozzens's Guard of Honor won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. The novel balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days in September 1943 to a racial incident on a U.S. Army airbase in Florida As Noel Perrin commented in The Washington Post Book World: "There is material for two or three hund

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