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The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon is a non-fiction book written by Alex Kershaw and published in 2004 by Da Capo Press. It became a New York Times bestseller. It tells the story of the eighteen men of an intelligence platoon under the command by Lieutenant Lyle Bouck.
The act of writing short stories is different from the act of gathering short stories into a collection. [6] For instance, the short story author may or may not be the one who compiles the short story collection, even though the author penned the individual stories. This is especially obvious in the case of posthumous publications.
Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a short story collection by William Faulkner published by Random House in 1950. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951. [ 1 ] The publication of this collection of 42 stories was authorized and supervised by Faulkner himself, who came up with the themed section headings.
The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division .
Platoon Leader is a true story told by James R. McDonough, a Vietnam War veteran. The book takes place in and around a fort near a Vietnamese village in Binh Dinh province. It is McDonough's retelling of his time in Vietnam. He wrote the book as an officer development tool while he was a battalion commander.
Serling's “First Squad, First Platoon,” a fictionalized take on the war that he worked on and set aside while attending Antioch College, has now been published for the first time.
Dafoe shares his memories of making "Platoon" and playing the Green Goblin in the ... the Vietnam War-set movie awarded the then-31-year-old actor one of the most famous death scenes ever filmed ...
How I Won the War is a 1967 British black comedy film starring Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, and John Lennon in his only non-musical acting role. The film, which was directed and produced by Richard Lester , is based upon the 1963 novel of the same name by Patrick Ryan .