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...ARTIE GREENGROIN, PFC. - Harry Brown-Knopf...
...talkative Artie Greengroin was part of a period which is fast slipping into history. He lived, in the words of his 28-year-old creator, Private Harry Brown, "in the grimly fabulous time when we were building up our military strength in Britain in preparation for the invasion of Europe . . . a time of enforced inactivity . . . in which the average American soldier . . . was alternately bored, astonished, delighted, and depressed by what he saw about him." In a long-running series for the British edition of Yank, Artie became about the best-known U.S. enlisted man in what he called "the English...
...unreliable. His grousing, griping and goldbricking were a vicarious safety valve for other G.I.s. Now Author Brown has introduced Artie to U.S. civilians in a collection of 51 stories. Brown's earlier best-selling A Walk in the Sun won acclaim as a serious work, but Artie Greengroin, Pfc. is not likely to be hailed as a great comic work...
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