Rare encounter A war novel
Book - 2021
"Roger Lincoln Shinn is an esteemed professor of social ethics at a prestigious New York institution. Known only to his wife, he had faced the unspeakable as a combat infantryman in the Second World War. But two decades later during the Vietnam War, Shinn reveals to stunned students his astounding story as a soldier and prisoner of war and those of a defiant captain in his outfit who ruptures the boundaries of conventional warfare. On a converted ocean liner en route to fight the Nazi army in Europe, the proper young Shinn meets John William Hall, a rough-hewn Southern rifle champion rebelling against the family bloodline. Hall left the dark rage of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl for the vortex of world war, and the two captain's destinie...s intertwine at the ferocious Battle of the Bulge." --
- Subjects
- Genres
- Historical fiction
War stories
Action and adventure fiction
War fiction - Published
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Minneapolis :
Windage & Elevation Press
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First American edition
- Item Description
- "Based on actual events." -- dust jacket.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 358 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBN
- 9781496723864
9781737568711
9781737568704