Paths of Glory - Softcover

Cobb, Humphrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820308846 ISBN 13: 9780820308845

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1987

Synopsis

1987 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS SOFTCOVER

About this title

About the Author:

Humphrey Cobb (1899–1944) was born in Siena, Italy, on September 5, 1899, to Alice Littell Cobb, a physician, and Arthur Murray Cobb, an artist. He attended boarding school in England during his childhood. Cobb was kicked out of an American high school and he never returned to graduate. At seventeen he decided to enlist in the Canadian army. After serving in the army for three years during World War I, he returned to the United States to work by turns in the stock trade, the merchant marines, publishing, advertising, and the Office of War Information (precursor of the OSS, the CIA predecessor) writing overseas propaganda. During his lifetime he wrote Paths of Glory (1935) and None But the Brave (1938), and was the lead screenwriter on the movie San Quentin (1937).

James H. Meredith, a retired United States Air Force lieutenant colonel, is the introducer of the Penguin Classics editions of Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb and Bombs Away by John Steinbeck.

David Simon is the creator of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, and the author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0820308846
• ISBN 13: 9780820308845
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304