The Young Lions

A staggering classic of World War II that the New York Times called "the best war novel yet written by an American"

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, countless American writers attempted to use fiction to convey the complicated experience they'd just undergone. Few of the novels that emerged from that period were as ambitious and powerful as The Young Lions, a sweeping, dramatic account of war from the point of view of ordinary solders that depicts the danger, excitement, trauma, ...