Description: "Evocative, heartbreaking and haunting ... [Israel's] "Red Badge of Courage." Because Leshem, like Stephen Crane, never saw combat, this is not a work of autobiography or observations but one of empathy and reconstruction-and all the stronger for that because the author has deployed both qualities without judgment.Beaufortis that rare thing, a novel of deep moral concern in which sympathetically drawn and beautifully realized characters are allowed to speak for themselves."-Los Angeles Times "Thirteen young soldiers spring to life with voices at once self-critical and brash, tender and darkly flippant. Though firsthand accounts and combat memoirs line the shelves of bookstores, Leshem's fiction rivals them in the completeness of his cosmos of war."-San Francisco Chronicle "Ron Leshem has succeeded in creating an entire world, simply through language."-David Grossman, author ofThe Yellow Wind "A gripping, viscerally powerful tale.... An alternately grim and blackly comic war/coming-of-age novel."-Kirkus Reviews "An important novel. This is a picture of war from a soldier's point of view. Its language is crude, the body count rises, and yet the tenderness of the bonds among the men is extraordinary."-Library Journal, starred review From the Hardcover edition.

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