Irwin Shaw
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist.
Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway...
Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The desert rats: A small group of men hold off German Field Marshal Rommel's forces despite being outnumbered. Twelve o'clock high: A brigadier general takes over a struggling Air Force bomber group during World War II. Von Ryan's express: An escaped prisoner of war races for freedom with Nazi soldiers in hot pursuit. The young lions: A decent young German man ends up as a Nazi officer.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
Ã2003.
Language
English
Description
Erik Toresen, a simple Norwegian fisherman, finds his quiet coastal village shattered by the Nazi invasion. Untrained in the ways of war, the villagers use only their cold, sullen hatred as defense until Erik mobilizes the villagers and trains them to fight.