1945 First Edition Beach Red: A Novel. Bowman, Peter (1917-1985). Random House- A Soldier's Thoughts

1945 First Edition “Beach Red”: A Novel. Bowman, Peter (1917-1985). [Association, John Ransom Lewis, 1917-1997; essay, John P. Marquand; design, Stefan Salter] Published by New York: Random House, 1945. 8vo, 122 pages. Dust jacket in good condition with minor chips and abrasions (see photos), interior clean and bright. First edition. The piece was later made into a movie in 1967 with screen writer’s adaptation of what runs through a soldier’s mind during combat.

The history of a single hour in the life of a soldier on the morning of a Pacific Island invasion. "Mr. Bowman, out of his own experience [as a military engineer in the southwest Pacific theater], has written a different and unusual book that can stand on its own merits. It is a book with a very broad appeal, for its pages give a picture of the thoughts and fears common to everyone who has ever worn a uniform, no matter what role, heroic or otherwise, he may have played in war. Beach Red may be called a pre-view to action rather than a realistic record. It can best be interpreted as a study of all the things that run through a soldier's mind during days of training or on lonely nights in barracks or aboard a transport going East or West. And it reveals the seldom confessed truth--that everyone who goes to war lives through a thousand battles and dies a thousand deaths. Its style, which is split prose rather than verse, has the staccato flow of introspective thought."

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Notes: See images, some dings to dust jacket but present, light tone to interior, otherwise a good copy

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