The Young Lions is the novel that made the world recognize and applaud its author's extraordinary power. Here is a novel that makes the lives of three men and plunges into a world at peace and at war. Here is a novel as superbly exciting as it is deeply moving.
Lively. bold. dramatic. Irwin Shaw handles the whirling changes of scene and atmosphere with amazing skill. He writes with passion and tremendous punch, and drives the action forward with unfailing inventiveness...