num_pages: 192
description: George Tilson is an eighteen-year-old farm boy from Iowa. Enlisted in the army during WWII and arriving in Normandy just after D-Day, he is nicknamed Heck for his reluctance to swear. From summers of farm labour Heck is already strong. He knows how to except orders and how to work uncomplainingly. But in combat Heck witnesses a kind of brutality unlike anything he could have imagined. Fear consumes his every thought and Heck soon realises a terrible thing about He is a coward. Possessed of this dark knowledge, Heck is then faced with an impossible task. 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.
language: English
title: Articles of War
titlecomplete: Articles of War
genres: Fiction, Historical, France, War, Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 386
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Colorado Book Award
category: Literary Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award
publisher: Arrow