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The Companies We Keep
Author(s) -
GouinHart Michael
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.12522
Subject(s) - citation , library science , computer science
In Company K , March (1933) presents an inexplicably neglected masterpiece—a formally experimental and emotionally charged book that was a revolutionary event in the history of war literature. It was the first novel to be written by a veteran combatant of the war it depicted (World War I) and among the first—along with certain works by Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and a few others—to depict its subject with unflinching and unornamented realism. As Philip D. Beidler notes in his introduction to the book: