Word: mandel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boom, by George Mandel. A complex, absorbing narrative about a hard-driven infantry company in combat...
...Boom, by George Mandel. The strange story of an infantry company that longed compulsively for light in the darkness of combat...
...Boom, by George Mandel. The strange story of an infantry company that longed compulsively for light in the darkness of combat...
Pushed from Behind. Mandel writes in this upended fashion. He tells of the mental disintegration of a U.S. mechanized cavalry troop fighting in Germany in 1944, and his soldiers are only a shade more than interchangeable war novel parts. But he describes the branching filaments of their decay with subtle force, and states clearly a proposition that most battle novels fudge: in the insane world of mud, blood and constant gunfire, the normal condition of a combat soldier must be something close to insanity...
...Mandel handles the deadly light with only a minimum of the writing-class prose that is standard in novels of this kind. The rich symbolism of the search for wax never becomes cant, even when the soldiers learn that the wax comes from melted saints. The Wax Boom is a commendable book, and, if predicament-describing were the main task of a novelist, it would be an excellent...