Volume 47, Number 15 · October 5, 2000
Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Robert Stone
Once an Eagle
by Anton Myrer
HarperCollins, 938 pp., $25.00
At 938 pages in its new edition, Once an Eagle, a 1968 novel by Anton Myrer, is excessively long, but that is its greatest weakness. It is a best seller of mid-Sixties vintage, hence a better buy than the tone-deaf, subliterate contemporary product, and a rather superior example of its type. It is also a war novel by a World War II veteran that was published during the Vietnam War and continues to have intensely admiring readers.
Review, 4447 words
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