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Anton Myrer

Anton Olmstead Myrer was a United States Marine Corps veteran and a best-selling author of American war novels that accurately and sensitively depict the lives of United States military personnel while in combat and in peace time. His 1968 novel, Once An Eagle, written at the peak of the Vietnam War, is required reading for all Marines and is frequently used in leadership training at West Point. The novel, considered a classic of military literature and a guide to honorable conduct in the profession of arms, has been compared favorably to Leo Tolstoy's magnum opus War and Peace. Eight years after publication, Once an Eagle was made into a television mini-series starring Sam Elliott. Glenn Ford played a supporting character.

Myrer wrote eight other novels, of which The Big War (1957) was adapted for a movie in 1958 and The Last Convertible (1978) was made into a television mini-series in 1979. Once An Eagle (1968) and The Last Convertible (1978) became international best-sellers and were translated in 19 languages.

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Born 03 November 1922
Died 19 January 1996

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  • Cover of: Once an eagle: a novel

    Cover of edition onceeagle00anto Cover of edition onceeagle00myre Cover of edition isbn_9791889927014_b5h3 First published in 1968 — 14 editions
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  • Cover of: The Last Convertible

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  • Cover of: A Green Desire

    First published in 1981 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: The Big War

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  • Cover of: The violent shore

    First published in 1962 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Intruder

    First published in 1965 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Once an eagle

    First published in 1968 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: On ne peut vivre sans aimer

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  • Cover of: Ostatni kabriolet

    First published in 2011 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Once an Eagle PS Paperback

    First published in 2013 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A green desire

    First published in 1983 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The tiger waits: a novel.

    First published in 1973 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The last convertible

    First published in 2001 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2001 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Once an eagle: [America's war and peace]

    First published in 1976 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1951 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1979 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1965 — 1 edition
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Born 03 November 1922
Died 19 January 1996

Subjects

Fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, war & military, Brothers, fiction, World War, 1939-1945, College students, Convertible Automobiles, Fiction, historical, general, History, Literature, Male friendship, Military History, Social life and customs, Soldiers, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, 20th century, 3 Wars, America's War and Peace, American, Anton Myrer, Army, Biography, Brothers, Brothers in fiction, Cabinet officers

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United States, Boston (Mass.), Vietnam, Washington

Time

20th century

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