New Releases by Irwin Shaw

The story of a man who needs to risk death to feel fully alive, a man who turns away from a comfortable, outwardly successful life toward dangerous pleasures. Some of the personal relationships in which he becomes entangled is threatening as most of his sports.

Beginning after WW II was the quarter century when America grew up.

In an unnamed war, six dead soldiers refuse to allow themselves to be buried in the trench dug by two of their buddies, causing consternation among the army''s generals.

Book documents society and politics during and immediately after the Mandate.