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The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
Posted by labeau on April 19th, 2009 filed in books
Published in 1948.
Another of the late 1940s wave of WWII books by first time novelists, and this is a big one. It’s often paired with Norman Mailer’s slightly shorter debut The Naked & the Dead, but it lacks the sensationalism or made-up curse words, though not the ambition.
The novel begins before the war and follows [...]