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The Young Lions (1948) is a novel by Irwin Shaw about three soldiers in World War II. Plot. Christian Diestl is at first a sympathetic Austrian drawn to Nazism by despair for his future but willing to sacrifice Jews if necessary. Noah Ackerman is an American Jew facing discrimination.
The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and ...
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- 1948
- Irwin Shaw
- Paperback
The Young Lions is a 1958 American epic World War II drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin. It was made in black-and-white and CinemaScope and was theatrically released by 20th Century-Fox .
He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, which was made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades, [1] which in 1976 was made ...
Feb 26, 2013 · Penned by a master storyteller at the height of his craft, The Young Lions stands the test of time as a classic novel of war and the human experience. This ebook features an illustrated biography...
- 1480408107, 9781480408104
- Irwin Shaw
- Open Road Media, 2013
In Irwin Shaw. …II led to his writing The Young Lions (1948; filmed 1958), a novel about three young soldiers—one German and two Americans—in wartime; it became a best-seller, and thereafter Shaw devoted most of the rest of his career to writing novels. Among the best known of his 12 novels are Two…. Read More.
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The Young Lions tells the stories of three soldiers, one German and two American, in World War II. Though they are continents apart when the novel begins (Christian Diestl is in Austria, Michael...
