Battle Cry - Hardcover

Uris, Leon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399100725 ISBN 13: 9780399100727

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1953

Synopsis

Story of the U.S. Marines in WWII. It follows the adventures of one of the toughest outfits in the Corps, and what made them tick.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Moving, shocking, tense, and glorious, here is a magnificent saga of men at war--Leon Uris's famous novel about life in the jaws of death, in the U.S. Marine Corps. Here are the men from the cities, farms, and whistle-stops. Here are the tough kids and the mama's boys, the liars and the lovers, the goldbricks and the heroes. Here are the men who made up the most courageous fighting force on the face of he earth--in the best novel about them ever written.

"Raw, tough, and unvarnished . . . Don't miss it!"--Kirkus Reviews

From the Inside Flap:

Moving, shocking, tense, and glorious, here is a magnificent saga of men at war--Leon Uris's famous novel about life in the jaws of death, in the U.S. Marine Corps.  Here are the men from the cities, farms, and whistle-stops.  Here are the tough kids and the mama's boys, the liars and the lovers, the goldbricks and the heroes.  Here are the men who made up the most courageous fighting force on the face of he earth--in the best novel about them ever written.

About this edition

• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication date: 1953
• ISBN 10: 0399100725
• ISBN 13: 9780399100727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 505