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Irwin Shaw

USA · WWII — fiction

About

American playwright and novelist who served in the Army Signal Corps in Europe. The Young Lions follows two American soldiers and one German from 1938 to the camps.

Books in Database (1)

The Young Lions cover
The Young Lions 1948 · 689 pages

Three soldiers — two American, one German — converge across the whole war toward a single clearing in Bavaria.

Historical Fiction

Events Covered

1940 North Africa Campaign 1944 D-Day / Normandy Landings