#1 New York Times Bestseller
Newly Reissued with PS
“A remarkable novel...utterly engrossing. Myrer is a superb story-teller....A grim, exciting and almost overwhelming account of twentieth-century war. It is an astute study of the mind and character of a good general and a good man. And it is a brilliant inside views of the life of a career officer in peace and war.”
—New York Times
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(pb) 9780060084356 - Subsidiary Rights: First serial: N/A; UK, Translation: Harper; Audio, Dramatic: McIntosh & Otis
- On Sale: 3/12/2013
- FICTION
- pb 9780062221629 $21.99 ($23.99)
- 1312 pages; 5 5/16 x 8
- Model ISBN: 9780060084356
Once An Eagle
- Originally published in 1968, Once An Eagle reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list twice and sold over 3 million copies. This new edition includes a PS section with new material and testimonies from the Army War College Foundation. This is also the first time it will be available as an eBook.
- Once an Eagle is the #1 recommended book on the Army War College Reading List, and also appears on the US Army Chief of Staff reading list.
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“Beautifully written...masterpiece...description of firefights by far the best I have read...Once An Eagle gave me a real life...closer to the real scene than any other I know.”
- George S. Patton, MG, U.S. Army
"An ambitious, magnificently vivid novel."
- The Atlantic
“Myrer was an excellent storyteller...Once An Eagle is that very rare thing, a genuine ideological novel. When one of these becomes standard issue to the Corps of Cadets we would be remiss if we ignored it.”
- New York Review of Books
“A superb and inspiring account of soldiers and soldiering. It’s about service—service to the magnificent young men and women that this great nation has committed to our charge—selfless service to the nation and its values and the relationship between the two. This nation will survive only as long as we inspire others to emulate Sam Damon and to act with humor and hope and generosity no matter what...”
- William Livsey, General, U.S. Army
"A powerful, provocative and strongly-written novel...and an implied warning to the nation...One hopes that the Chiefs of Staff in Washington will read it with care."
- Cincinnati Enquirer
"At long last we have what critics have been saying was lost to modern novels--an honest-to-God hero...a natural."
- Harpers
“I would pick up Once An Eagle rather than Norman Mailer any day for a clue as to what is going on in Vietnam.”
- Baltimore Sun
"In ironic contrast, the story moves from jungle warfare to drawing rooms on the Potomac, and back again...Goes to the heart of our century."
- Chicago Sun-Times
“It is my firm opinion that Anton Myrer’s Once An Eagle deserves to rank with, or perhaps above, any one of those three truly great pieces of military fiction—Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage; Fix Bayonets! by Col. John W. Thomason, USMC; and What Price Glory, by Capt. Lawrence Stallings, USMC.”
- Armed Forces Journal
"Reflects skillful research in military areas as well as technical mastery of the writing craft...Through the gentle but courageous character of Damon, Myrer graphically describes the criminal, dirty, wasteful, savage immorality of war...The Army career man will look on it as a monument."
- Denver Post
"The work of a man who has thought long and hard about the nature of war, and has come up with something more than the simple truism that it's hell...one at last understands why the glibly optimistiic press releases about Vietnam have had so little relation to what is going on there."
- Life
"Too overwhelming, too awe-inspiring to keep to youself...magnificent,"
- Philadelphia Bulletin
"A classic novel...Sam Damon doesn't preach, he lives his values and they are universal, not only military."
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf