Glory for me
By: [by] MacKinlay Kantor.
Publisher: Coward-McCann, Inc.
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
First sentence: "Fred Derry, twenty-one, and killer of a hundred men,
walked on the width of Welburn Field.  The cargo 
ship
had set him down in noontime haze of early spring.
He smelled the onion farms;
He heard the trucks in Highway 52.
He saw the signboards, and the ugliness
that was a beauty he had dreamed."
Description: Three discharged servicemen, honorably for medical reasons, struggle to re-adjust to "normal life" in the same town, in the last days of WWII, and its challenge to the comradeship of shared danger and sacrifice that they knew as soldiers. A national epic, told in the language of the common man, in the language of the poet; told only as America could tell it.

blue cloth hardcover title on spine in powder blue rectangle with gold leaf
Notes: A novel in verse.
Table of contents: title: chapter/stanzas are numbered with roman numerals but not named