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Title: Interesting Novel About Leadership and the Military
Review: Right from the start, I was engrossed in Sam Damon's character and the storyline of this novel. It starts with a small town boy who decides to make his career in the Army and follows him through WWI, peacetime, and WWII. Damon enlists and then is made an officer through a wartime commission. Its a compelling storyline, but most of all I found its inner-woven leadership lessons to be the most interesting aspect of the book. Sam gets presented with tough choices over and over again and finds a way to make the right decision each time. Yes, its not realistic, but it does teach important lessons. For a young military officer, this is definitely worth the read. For a very long book, it does go fairly quickly. However, it was about 300 pages too long. I lost interest about 3/4 of the way through and couldn't finish. Overall a very good novel.
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