Anton Myrer

Required reading for West Point cadets, Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self-interest. Massengale, however, brilliantly advances by making the right connections behind the lines and in Washington's corridors of power. Beginning in the French countryside during the Great War, the conflict between these adversaries solidifies in the isolated garrison life marking peacetime, intensifies in the deadly Pacific jungles of World War II, and reaches its treacherous conclusion in the last major battleground of the Cold War—Vietnam. Here is an unforgettable story of a man who embodies the best in our nation—and in us all.**

Las Vegas: Ende einer Urlaubsreise und Ende eines Horror-Trips. Das glauben zumindest Mike, Stefan und Frank. Alles scheint aufgeklärt, doch dieser Eindruck trügt. Noch hat der Wendigo, der alte Schamane der Anasazi, seine Rache nicht. Wie eine Spinne im Netz zieht er seine letzten Fäden, und Mike muss erkennen, dass nichts so ist, wie es zu sein scheint. Eine Erkenntnis, die mehr als nur ein Leben kostet…

They were our husbands, our fathers, our lovers, our sons. They were Americans and Marines. And this is their story: The Big War, Anton Myrer's panoramic novel of Marines in the Pacific in World War II. This is the story of Alan Newcombe, the Boston society Harvard man; Danny Kantaylis, the natural-born leader; Jay O'Neill, the barroom scrapper. Myrer does not glorify war; he does not flinch from describing what the actual experience of warfare was like for a desperate group of Marines trapped in some of the worst fighting conditions of the war. We learn about their lives at home and their fates on the battlefield.