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Daniel Lang (1913–1981) was an award-winning journalist and author. He was a staff writer for the New Yorker for forty years, covering World War II in North Africa, Italy, and France. After the war he reported extensively on nuclear weapons and the morality of military science, and his articles were collected into several books, beginning with Early Tales of the Atomic Age. Casualties of War, the account of the brutal rape and murder of a South Vietnamese girl by US soldiers and the obstacles Private First Class Sven Eriksson faced in bringing his platoon mates to justice, won a Hillman Prize and was adapted into a Brian De Palma film of the same name. In addition to his journalistic work, Lang wrote poetry, children’s literature, and the l ...more

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Casualties of War

4.01 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1969 — 15 editions
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Stockholm 73

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A Backward Look: Germans Re...

3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions
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Incident on Hill 192

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The Man in the Thick Lead Suit

3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1954
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Patriotism Without Flags

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Incident On Hill 192

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Early Tales of the Atomic Age

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“We all figured we might be dead in the next minute, so what difference did it make what we did? But the longer I was there, the more I became convinced that it was the other way around that counted - the because we might not be around much longer, we had to take extra care how we behaved. " Max Eriksson”
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