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Company K
Author William March
Country United States
Language English
Genre Novel
Publisher Smith and Haas (USA) & Victor Gollancz Limited (UK)
Publication date January 1933 (USA) & March 1933 (UK)
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 260 pp
ISBN 978-0-8173-0480-5
OCLC Number 20220797
Dewey Decimal 813/.54 20
LC Classification PS3505.A53157 C6 1989
Followed by Come in at the Door
Company K is a 1933 novel by William March, first serialised in parts in the …show more content…
University of Alabama professor and author Philip Beidler wrote in his introduction to the 1989 republication of the novel: "the act of writing Company K, in effect reliving his very painful memories, was itself an act of tremendous courage, equal to or greater than whatever it was that earned him the Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross and French Croix de Guerre".[3]
Years after the completion of Company K, Ernest Hemingway published Men At War: The Best War Stories of All Time. In the introduction Hemingway notes that of all the stories published in the novel, the two he most desired to publish were omitted, Andre Malraux's Man's Fate and William March's Nine Prisoners, one of the original serialized excerpts from Company K. Hemingway states that the anti-war aspects of the stories would not bode well, as the novel coincides with the beginnings of World War II. He further states: "Since the military problem, which was by no means clearly presented in the story, will undoubtedly arise many times in this war, I thought the story should be omitted from this book for the duration of the war. After the war, if a new edition of this book is published, I should strongly advise that the story be
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Company K
Author William March
Country United States
Language English
Genre Novel
Publisher Smith and Haas (USA) & Victor Gollancz Limited (UK)
Publication date January 1933 (USA) & March 1933 (UK)
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 260 pp
ISBN 978-0-8173-0480-5
OCLC Number 20220797
Dewey Decimal 813/.54 20
LC Classification PS3505.A53157 C6 1989
Followed by Come in at the Door
Company K is a 1933 novel by William March, first serialised in parts in the …show more content…
University of Alabama professor and author Philip Beidler wrote in his introduction to the 1989 republication of the novel: "the act of writing Company K, in effect reliving his very painful memories, was itself an act of tremendous courage, equal to or greater than whatever it was that earned him the Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross and French Croix de Guerre".[3]
Years after the completion of Company K, Ernest Hemingway published Men At War: The Best War Stories of All Time. In the introduction Hemingway notes that of all the stories published in the novel, the two he most desired to publish were omitted, Andre Malraux's Man's Fate and William March's Nine Prisoners, one of the original serialized excerpts from Company K. Hemingway states that the anti-war aspects of the stories would not bode well, as the novel coincides with the beginnings of World War II. He further states: "Since the military problem, which was by no means clearly presented in the story, will undoubtedly arise many times in this war, I thought the story should be omitted from this book for the duration of the war. After the war, if a new edition of this book is published, I should strongly advise that the story be