(Born in 1892, he was killed while serving as a war correspondent in Italy during WWII). Though best known for his westerns, Brand Max Brand, Author, Edgar L. Chapman, Introduction by University ...

Max Porter is the award-winning ... In Parenthesis by David Jones (1937). My favorite book. The dizzyingly strange and difficult visionary war poem of a lonely, eccentric genius whose work has ...

did—these are five of the best books published about the second world war this century. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-45. By Max Hastings. Knopf; 672 pages; $22. Pan Macmillan ...