New Releases by MacKinlay Kantor

Chuck Noel has blue eyes, from which the pigment seems to have been washed by dry heat until only the blanched, toughened iris remains. He wears his hat on the back of his huge head, and in the hollow of his left arm is a light shoulder-holster with a spring clip. A double-action Colt .45 reposes there. Occasionally, of course, he has need to remove the Colt from beneath the spring clip, very hurriedly. But that is never in the Little Owl cafe...

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville “What James Jones has done for the Army in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, Kantor does for the Air Force and their love affairs in the orient… Has a gripping interest.” —DALLAS TIMES HERALD They Lived Only For Today An unforgettable novel of the air war in Korea, the men of the 68th Bomb Group and the women who shared their lives behind the lines in Japan. Fraternizing between pilots and wives of men at the front was forbidden. But Korea was far away and every time a plane left on a mission no one knew if it would return . . . and some women got lonely. Between missions the men were lonely, too. Many took refuge in geisha houses. Major Gregory Wolford found Tony Borley—whom he''d once loved but refused to marry because he believed he''d die in combat. Now Tony was on the base—married to a fighter pilot—and more desirable than ever . . . and their mutual attraction threatened to break their vows to duty and marriage. "A romance with the thunder of Korean guns in the background... Compelling and meaningful." —BIRMINGHAM NEWS

In The Children Sing MacKinlay Kantor-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Andersonville-ventures into the field of the parading mural, taking a colorful group of people through Eastern Asia into a crucible of challenge and excitement. Don Lundin and his wife, July, are in Bangkok with other members of Graduate Tours Incorporated. Lundin, a wealthy land speculator, had served with the U.S. Air Force in the bombing of Japan and also during the Korean War. He has harbored within himself an abusive hatred for the scrambling millions of the brown and yellow nations who are, to him, a disquieting threat. Despite the gentle example of Mr. Wye Rabarti Wong, a tour conductor who tends his flock with saintly fortitude, and Lundin''s rescue of a drowning child in Thailand, his prejudice persists. Meanwhile, his beautiful July meets in Singapore an officer who has long been seeking an opportunity to demonstrate his passion for her-and they meet again in a Kowloon hotel. Perhaps Chaucer was not the first writer to present a group of people on a pilgrimage, but resourceful authors have been gathering their throngs together in such pageantry ever since Chaucer''s time. The results, as far as MacKinlay Kantor is concerned, add up to a charming and memorable novel. The retired surgeon and his veteran actress wife; a quavering spinster clinging to false and profitless recollections; a quiet woman filled with death-dealing hatred for her bullying husband; the brave old Jew whose heart and soul are set on an intimate view of Mount Fuji-no-Yama; and the sign manufacturer drinking his life away even while he crouches at the Red Chinese border-we come to know these travelers and others intimately before we return to Japan with Don Lundin and see him overwhelmed by a startling revelation of his own past and a kinship with the East affirmed in the very flesh.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville The Twenty-Third Precinct of the New York City Police Department includes within its boundaries exalted penthouses and reeking slums. The story concerns three men in blue, their loves, their ambitions, their contentions-the cruelty they encounter, the courage they offer, the pity and aid they are able to give. It speeds through the reader''s consciousness like a patrol car wailing in midnight traffic. In 1948 the Acting Commissioner of Police, the late Tom Mulligan, authorized MacKinlay Kantor to proceed on all police activities, accompanying the patrolmen in their work. Kantor learned the life of a policeman through first-hand experience. Such priv-ilege had never been granted to a civilian before. But this civilian happened to be the author of Long Re-member, The Voice of Bugle Ann, and many other famous books, as well as the original story of the great motion picture, "The Best Years of Our Lives." Thunder of feet on sagging stairways; a yell from behind a locked door; tears and oaths and-worse- the stony agony of women who stare in silence... The radio voice of CB declares flatly: "Two-Three Precinct. The address...on the roof...proceed with caution..." Is it rape, suicide, assault? Or merely a kitten cry-ing from its trap in a drainpipe? Or do we meet the glare of a razor, the stab of gunfire in a hall? Our fingers squeeze the siren button. This is a Signal Thirty-two... A novel by MacKinlay Kantor Author of Arouse and Beware and Glory for Me

Designed for young readers, this illustrated history recounts the events that led to the surrender of the Confederacy, and the personalities involved.

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The Daughter of Bugle Ann, which picks up where the first volume, The Voice of Bugle Ann, leaves off, is, in our opinion, even better than the first. Benjy Davis is now married to Camden Terry. "A match made by a 30-30 rifle," says old Cal Royster. "A match made in heaven," says Mrs. Royster. In either case, it was a perfect match that would have been destroyed forever by Benjy''s hard-headedness, were it not for Camden''s secret, the full truth of which was unknown even to her until old Springfield Davis divined the mystery of the no-account bristly-faced dog.

If the South Had Won the Civil War originally appeared in the November 22, 1960, issue of Look magazine where it inspired a deluge of correspondence from readers. Published in book form in 1961, the novel is a must-have for Civil War enthusiasts. Out of print for over a decade, MacKinlay Kantor''s classic Civil War novel is back, featuring a brand new introduction by Harry Turtledove (author of the bestselling The Guns of the South), new interior art by Dan Nance, and a stunning cover by acclaimed Civil War artist Don Troiani. This new edition also includes a hard-to-find essay by Kantor describing how and why the novel was written, and the nation''s reaction to its publication. MacKinlay Kantor was superbly equipped to write this fascinating account of what might have happened, beginning on the fateful afternoon of Tuesday, May 12, 1863, when a deplorable equestrian accident resulted in the death of General Ulysses S. Grant.

Long Remember is the first realistic novel about the Civil War. Originally published in the 1930s, and out of print sincer the 50s, this book received rave reviews from the NY Times Book Review, and was a main selection of the Literary Guild. It is the account of the Battle of Gettysburg, as viewed by a pacifist who comes to accept the nasty necessity of combat, and lives an intense and skewed romance along the way.

A moving collection of novels that explore the powers, passions, and politics of the War Between the States. Includes Michael Shaara''s Killer Angels, Stephen Crane''s Red Badge of Courage, and Mackinley Kantor''s Andersonville.

When troops entered Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the South seemed to be winning the Civil War. But Gettysburg was a turning point. After three bloody days of fighting, the Union finally won the battle. Inspired by the valor of the many thousands of soldiers who died there, President Lincoln visited Gettysburg to give a brief but moving tribute. His Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches in American history.

Set forth as a novel in plan and management, I love you, Irene bristles with intimate excitement of the first twenty-eight months the Kantors spent together.

Thomas always pretended his favorite menu was creamed angleworms on toast. Then one day when he also pretended he was sick enough to miss school, his family thought he deserved whatever he wanted for lunch.

The wide range of Kantor''s interest and affection is apparent in this volume. He portrays the pioneers, the veterans, the rustic children and Missouri hill people who devotees of this author have grown to anticipate.

Autobiography of the man who served on active duty as a 4-star general longer than anyone in the history of our country.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville GOD AND MY COUNTRY A Novel By MacKinlay Kantor BASIS FOR THE MOVIE FOLLOW ME, BOYS MacKinlay Kantor, the master of the warm and human story, the writer who can make us believe the good in the worst of us, has woven a compelling, appealing novel about the life of a simple American man who held in his care the destinies of hundreds of boys. Here for the first time a major writer portrays the Scoutmaster in a small town in a role as vital as the greatest of schoolmasters, doctors, priests, or ministers. With rare insight and symu00adpathy, MacKinlay Kantor has created the memorable Lem Siddons, who gave forty years of his wisdom, the fund of his laughter, the knowledgeable touch, the sweetness and love that were his, to generations of Boy Scouts. Not every boy who passed khaki-clothed along his life won the world''s respect or the Scoutu00admaster''s pride. There were some misfits, fallers-by-the-wayside . . . sure. But Lem Siddons knew his reward every waking moment of his life and in his dreams as well. His story is one you will remember as that of the closest of your friends: his love for the delicate and freckled Vida that grew with a lifetime, his son Downey who wanted to crowd the years. All the good Kantor writing is here, the lucid and homespun prose that makes tears well in your eyes even as a song rises in your heart. MacKinlay Kantor has set the scene for God and My Country in a small town very much like Webster City, Iowa, where he was born, and has dedicated the book to his Scoutmaster of those days. It is a perfect example of MacKinlay Kantor''s special genius for capturing the full flavor of a small American town, and of its people. "There''s a Mr. Chips'' quality to this deceptively simple story. MacKinlay Kantor has told quietly, in realistic terms, the story of one man whose inu00adfluence permeate a whole Iowa town and rural area. No drum heating for the American vision here, but true democracy emerges in boys at every social and human level. A microcosm of America that strengthens one''s faith."—Virginia Kirkus "God and My Country is a song from the heart of America which I would love to sing."—Burl Ives

An orphan boy, fugitive from a Spanish reformatory run by monks, is brought back to grace through a "natural miracle".

This book is a story about the life of Lobo, the family dog, and how he came to be with and stay with the Kantor family.