Articles of war
Subtitle: a novel
By: Nick Arvin
Edition: 1st Anchor Bks. ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781400077342
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction; Americans; Women refugees; Cowardice; Soldiers
Description: George Tilson is an 18 year old farmboy from Iowa. Enlisted in the Army during WW II he arrives at Normandy just after D-Day. In combat he witnesses a kind of brutality unlike any that he could have imagined. Fear consumes him, and he comes to the dark realization that he is a coward. Possessed of this knowledge, he is faced with an impossible task.