Moving, shocking, tense, and glorious, here is a magnificent saga of men at war--Leon Uris's famous novel about life in the jaws of death, in the U.S. Marine Corps.  Here are the men from the cities, farms, and whistle-stops.  Here are the tough kids and the mama's boys, the liars and the lovers, the goldbricks and the heroes.  Here are the men who made up the most courageous fighting force on the face of he earth--in the best novel about them ever written.