The Soldier (novel)

The Soldier (novel)

The Soldier , a book, by Richard Powell, aka Richard P. Powell was first published in 1960 by Charles Scribner's Sons, and later serialized in The Saturday Evening Post. It came out as a Bantam paperback in 1962.

The scene of the novel is "an imaginary area of the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre in late 1942 and early 1943". Lieutenant Colonel William A. Farralon starts the book as a washed up officer being transferred to an unimportant post. Fate and good soldiering put his career back on track. He becomes a General, and gets the girl.


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