The Dawn Attack
Book description
His third novel about an amphibious assault on a Norwegian coast town during World War II.
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1 author picked The Dawn Attack as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a book I read as a teen that inspired me to write war stories. I loved it because it doesn’t glorify war; Brian Callison is a master of writing about war as it is, from multiple perspectives, in all its bloody, brutal horror.
The action is great but almost secondary to the memorable characters he creates, and Brian Callison writes dialogue the way soldiers really talk. If you like this one, he's written a dozen more like it, and they haven't aged.
From FX's list on war stories you probably haven’t read yet.
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