The Bullet Garden

Dedication

To the novelists of The War, some great, some not so great, whose work illuminated my youth…

Anton Myrer, The Big War

Nicholas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea

Edward L. Beach, Run Silent, Run Deep

Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions

James E. Bassett, Harm’s Way

John Clagett, The Slot

Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

John Hersey, The War Lover

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Leon Uris, Battle Cry

Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny

James Jones, The Thin Red Line

George Mandel, The Wax Boom

John Ashmead, The Mountain and the Feather

Richard Matheson, The Beardless Warriors

Robert Gaffney, A World of Good

Harry Brown, A Walk in the Sun

James E. Ross, The Dead Are Mine

Thomas Heggen, Mister Roberts

Denys Raynor, The Enemy Below