Blurb from book's dust jacket:
"An impressive talent is revealed in this short novel by Cpl. Peter Bowman. His book is the military history of a single hour in a soldier's life in a Pacific island invasion. It is written in prose and should be read as such.
"The typographical arrangement of lines and sections was devised by the author to represent the rigid timing by which each step of such an action is governed. Beach Red is not, however, a war story in the strict sense of the term, since it deals by inference with ageless adversaries and not merely
with those of the conflict in which the characters are engaged.
"Aside from the battle scenes, which are notable for their intensity and vividness, the author takes the reader into the mind of his protagonist
and shows us what his generation is thinking about the war and its
relation to the world afterwards."
Beach Red was named Book of the Month for December 1945.
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