"The best novel to come out of the . . . war, perhaps the best book to come out of any war." –San Francisco Chronicle
"Best novel yet about World War II." –
Time "Brutal, agonizing, astonishingly thoughtful." –
Newsweek "Nightmarish masterpiece of realism." –
Cleveland News "Vibrant with life, abundant with real people, full of memorable scenes. To call it merely a great book about the war would be to minimize its total achievement." –
The Philadelphia Inquirer "The most important American novel since
Moby-Dick." –
Providence Journal