The Long Day's Dying

They were three soldiers, on watch in the French countryside, their base a disused barn. Three ordinary men seconded into the horrors of World War II, each with his own ideals, his own feelings, his own fears.

Their task was a nightmare of waiting. Over the brow if a hill German forces were stationed, and every moment of every day passed in nerve-shattering anticipation of their first clash. And when the clash finally came, it was not merely a battle of force and brutality but a complex and murderous struggle between the cunning and ruthlessness of both sides...

THE LONG DAY'S DYING is a novel that portrays the horror, the waste of human life, the tension and the terror of war with a passionate realism. The book, memorably filmed by Paramount, is a classic; once taken up, it cannot be put down; once read, it will never be forgotten