Dog tags

Becker, Stephen D

ISBN 10: 0394464397 / ISBN 13: 9780394464398

Published by Random House, 1973

About this Item

This hardcover book is Fine, being square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is Very Good; with a touch of wear to the extremities at the spine and a rolled edge to the inner front flap. Original Price is clipped. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark. This copy is signed by the Author on the free end page.

Seller Inventory # 006239

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dog tags
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394464397
• ISBN 13: 9780394464398
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Collectible; VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket present as described
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition

About this title

Synopsis

From the killing fields of World War II to a Chinese POW camp during the Korean War, this mesmerizing novel is a tribute to the legacy of the Greatest Generation

Separated from his fellow American soldiers, Benny Beer walks alone on a frozen plain in Germany during World War II. Lost and afraid, he seeks shelter in an abandoned tavern and encounters a victim of the Holocaust. Benny tries to save the suffering man's life, but never knows if he succeeds--he wakes up in a hospital bed, wounded and missing his dog tags, with no memory of how he got there.

Sent back to Brooklyn with a limp and a Purple Heart, Benny falls in love, gets married, and becomes a doctor--not necessarily in that order--but his life is just beginning when he is called to serve his country once more. In Korea, he is captured and sent to a Chinese prison camp, where for two and a half long years he practices the fine art of self-preservation and fights the cruelty and indifference of his captors with compassion, care, and a fierce sense of humor.

Poignant, witty, and authentic, Dog Tags is the story of an ordinary man in extraordinary times, of an awkward Jewish boy who grows up to become an American hero. Soldier, doctor, lover--Benny Beer is one of the most captivating protagonists in twentieth-century literature.