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Company K.

by William March

Company K. Univ. of Alabama. (Library Alabama Classics). 1989. 288p. ISBN 9780817304805. pap. $18.95.

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Published in 1933 by a veteran of the U.S. Marines in France. The 131 entries, each from a different fictional soldier, follow the experience of war from enlistment to return, the last entry being by the Unknown Soldier. Unadorned, unromantic, deeply affecting.

Reviewed by Edwin B. Burgess, Margaret Heilbrun , Nov 01, 2013

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