THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND or ALL QUIET IN THE THIRD PLATOON (191 pp.) — Marion Hargrove — Viking ($2.95). Is the modern draftee as soft as a grape? And is the peacetime army too polite ever to tread on ...

SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE—Marion Hargrove—Half ($2). This is World War II’s best book to date about U.S. Army life. It is a realistic, informative, good-natured sketch of what life in camp is really ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

In 28 days it began. In 28 weeks it spread. In 28 years it evolved.

U.S. Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman said “war is hell.” Throughout many wars, a lack of communication has spelled d-e-f-e-a-t. Prior to World War II, U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Catlett ...

A week ago Saturday, Edward Thomas Marion Lawton Hargrove Jr. died of pneumonia, marking the end of an era of telling simple wry tales. Prior to being drafted into the army July 17, 1941, Marion ...