Anton Myrer
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Anton Olmstead Myrer (3. listopadu 1922, Worcester, Massachusetts – 19. ledna 1996, , New York) byl americký spisovatel. Vystudoval Boston Latin School. Za druhé světové války, v roce 1942 vstoupil do americké námořní pěchoty a bojoval tři roky v Pacifiku. Účastnil se bitvy o ostrov Guam, kde byl zraněn. Podílel se i na obsazení ostatních Mariánských ostrovů. Z armády odešel v roce 1946 v hodnosti desátníka. Po válce vystudoval Harvardovu univerzitu. Konec života strávil v New Yorku, kde zemřel na leukémii.
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Anton Olmstead Myrer (November 3, 1922 – January 19, 1996) was a United States Marine Corps veteran and a best-selling author of American war novels that accurately and sensitively depict the lives of United States military personnel while in combat and in peace time. His 1968 novel, Once An Eagle, written at the peak of the Vietnam War, is required reading for all Marines and is frequently used in leadership training at West Point. The novel, considered a classic of military literature and a guide to honorable conduct in the profession of arms, has been compared favorably to Leo Tolstoy's magnum opus War and Peace. Eight years after publication, Once an Eagle was made into a television mini-series starring Sam Elliott. Glenn Ford played a supporting character.
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World War II was the one event which had the greatest impact on my life. I enlisted imbued with a rather flamboyant concept of this country's destiny as the leader of a free world and the necessity of the use of armed force. I emerged a corporal three years later in a state of great turmoil, at the core of which was an angry awareness of war as the most vicious and fraudulent self-deception man had ever devised.
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Anton Olmstead Myrer (3. listopadu 1922, Worcester, Massachusetts – 19. ledna 1996, , New York) byl americký spisovatel. Vystudoval Boston Latin School. Za druhé světové války, v roce 1942 vstoupil do americké námořní pěchoty a bojoval tři roky v Pacifiku. Účastnil se bitvy o ostrov Guam, kde byl zraněn. Podílel se i na obsazení ostatních Mariánských ostrovů. Z armády odešel v roce 1946 v hodnosti desátníka. Po válce vystudoval Harvardovu univerzitu. Konec života strávil v New Yorku, kde zemřel na leukémii.
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Anton Olmstead Myrer (November 3, 1922 – January 19, 1996) was a United States Marine Corps veteran and a best-selling author of American war novels that accurately and sensitively depict the lives of United States military personnel while in combat and in peace time. His 1968 novel, Once An Eagle, written at the peak of the Vietnam War, is required reading for all Marines and is frequently used in leadership training at West Point. The novel, considered a classic of military literature and a guide to honorable conduct in the profession of arms, has been compared favorably to Leo Tolstoy's magnum opus War and Peace. Eight years after publication, Once an Eagle was made into a television mini-series starring Sam Elliott. Glenn Ford played a supporting character. Myrer wrote eight other novels, of which The Big War (1957) was adapted for a movie in 1958 and The Last Convertible (1978) was made into a television mini-series in 1979. Once An Eagle (1968) and The Last Convertible (1978) became international best-sellers and were translated in 19 languages. The United States Army War College Foundation celebrates October 14 every year as Anton Myrer Army Leader Day to discuss leadership issues at the strategic level. This day serves as the capstone event for the U.S. Army War College's strategic leadership course. The United States Army War College also presents an award called the Anton Myrer Strategic leadership Writing Award annually on graduation day.
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