face of the hero, 1950. Harcourt Brace & Company.
Jacket designed by S.K.A.
“First war novel to picture air combat from the enlisted men’s point of view”. There were accusations of plagiarism made regarding Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. They were “both Air Force veterans from Russian-Jewish families in Brooklyn who served in Italy during the war. Both novels are set at the Mediterranean base of an American bomber squadron in World War II, the Times said. Each writer used the powerful and evocative image of a wounded soldier whose body is encased in a white cast.”