MACKINLAY KANTOR
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Andersonville

GLORY FOR ME

A Novel in Verse
By MacKinlay Kantor

BASIS FOR THE MOVIE
THE most sensible YEARS OF OUR LIVES

It is seldom in time of struggle that an au­thor, irrespective of how emotionally conscious of what all of it ability, can write a publication which expresses the sensation that moti­vates battling males. Why did it take place this manner, why is it finishing this fashion— what are we now that it truly is performed with, now that we're domestic? certainly, are we domestic, or are we in a boarding-house of bewilderment and wretchedly defeated reasons and understandings?

MacKinlay Kantor is certainly one of Amer­ica's best-known novelists. it'd be acknowledged that if any writer may write that booklet Kantor could be the one for the task, however it takes greater than mere specialist writing ability to accomplish this sort of significant accomplishment. It takes knowledge born of motion and hazard and keenly felt wisdom. Such knowl­edge MacKinlay Kantor has came across, and in his novel of struggle and its males, Glory for Me, he has utterly expressed it.

Well above the draft age, and physi­cally unacceptable to the military, Kantor intensely felt the necessity to sign up for his more youthful fellows not directly; indirectly he needed to be part of the chance, the horror, the honour of this conflict. He chanced on his chance as a battle correspondent. As such, established in Eng­land, he flew in strive against with the U. S. Air Forces and the R.A.F. over enemy territory into flak and hearth. As such he discovered to grasp the combating males whose consistent spouse, pal and fellow-in-war he used to be for lots of months. For the an identical of a depart Kantor got here again to the USA, and what crammed his brain and his middle and his recommendations needed to locate expression in a booklet, that is Glory for Me.

Glory for Me is a straightforward novel—about 3 provider males, honorably dis­charged for clinical factors, who re­turn domestic to an identical city the place in peacetime they'd now not recognized one an­other. Now they understand each other, and during them we all know them and their city and our kingdom and conflict and peace and man.

Glory for Me is a countrywide epic, advised in language of the typical guy, in language of the poet: advised as purely an American may perhaps inform it.