The Revolt of Gunner Asch

by Hans Hellmut Kirst

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B00F74IIM6
• Release Date: January 1956
• Publisher: Little Brown & Company.
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Heller Meets Kirst

Did Heller read Kirst? Was Yousarrian patterned from Asch? I don't know, but I rather doubt it. I suspect the emergence of such similar characters in such similar circumstances was rather more like the emergence of two competing versions of the rubick's cube in the same time period (See Erno Rubik and Terutoshi Ishigi for details). Good armies have similar characteristics as do the members of those armies. It is inevitable that a war the size of WWII would produce men with similar viewpoints of their army life regardless of their worldview on other subjects. Thus revolts Gunner Asch. If you have ever been in the military, you immediately recognize Gunner Asch and the cast of characters around him. If you have ever been in the corporate world you recognize most of them. Gunner Asch's story, continued through "Forward, Gunner Asch" and "The Return of Gunner Asch" is recognisable, too; the quest for the rules to not only be legal but for them to be right, for the rules to apply equally, for those who enforce the rules to be bound to their meaning as well as their letter. It almost sounds like an all-American story but, really, it's more an all-soldier's story. Kirst tells one soldiers story very, very well and, in the process, tells the story of millions or hundreds of millions of soldiers through-out time.