The Soldier
- Authors
- Powell, Richard
- Publisher
- Curtis Brown Digital
- Tags
- world war , 1939-1945 , fiction
- Date
- 2008-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.48 MB
- Lang
- en
The Soldier is a novel, by Richard P. Powell. It 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.