The Young Lions (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Plot: Realistic war novel
- Time of Work: From New Year’s Eve, 1937, to spring, 1945
- Setting: The Bavarian Alps, New York City, North Africa, England, France, and Germany
- Principal Characters: Christian Diestl, Michael Whitacre, Noah Ackerman, Lieutenant Hardenburg, Gretchen Hardenburg, Laura Whitacre, Hope Plowman, Johnny Burnecker, Lieutenant Green, Colonel Colclough
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, War fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, France or French people, New York City, 1940’s, World War II, Friendship, 1930’s, England or English people, Anti-Semitism, Ethics, Soldiers, Germany or German people, Alps
- Locales: Africa, New York, NY, France, England, Germany, Alps, Bavaria, Bavaria
The Novel
The Young Lions tells the stories of three soldiers, one German and two American, in World War II. Though they are continents apart when the novel begins (Christian Diestl is in Austria, Michael Whitacre is in New York, and Noah Ackerman is in Santa Monica), the tide of events brings their lives together briefly and fatally along a forest path in Germany.
The book’s almost seven hundred pages recount the progress of its three protagonists. Their lives are presented chronologically, kept parallel in time as the narrative focuses first on one...
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