Hardcover, 631 pages
English language
Published June 17, 1948 by Harcourt Brace & Company.
Guard of Honor
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The story of Guard of Honor takes place on three tense September days of 1943. The scene is the enormous air base at Ocanara, Florida, which has been put under the command of Mayor General Ira W. Beal. "Bus" Beal, at forty-one, the youngest two-star general in the Army, West Pointer, good fellow, fighter pilot with a brilliant combat record, is facing the crucial command of his meteoric career, the command that may clear his way to the top of the Army hierarchy or.... And Ocanara is something that Beal has never had to deal with before- a sprawling complex of administrative problems, local and Army politics, racial animosities, personal loyalties and enmities, bedroom scandal, with every emotion edged by the tensions of wartime.
From the moment when Bus Beal, landing his command plane at the base, nearly kills himself and his passengers, a crisis is set in motion with …
The story of Guard of Honor takes place on three tense September days of 1943. The scene is the enormous air base at Ocanara, Florida, which has been put under the command of Mayor General Ira W. Beal. "Bus" Beal, at forty-one, the youngest two-star general in the Army, West Pointer, good fellow, fighter pilot with a brilliant combat record, is facing the crucial command of his meteoric career, the command that may clear his way to the top of the Army hierarchy or.... And Ocanara is something that Beal has never had to deal with before- a sprawling complex of administrative problems, local and Army politics, racial animosities, personal loyalties and enmities, bedroom scandal, with every emotion edged by the tensions of wartime.
From the moment when Bus Beal, landing his command plane at the base, nearly kills himself and his passengers, a crisis is set in motion with mounting excitement and suspense. Before it is resolved in the final pages of this enthralling book, the reader has had an unforgettable insight into the meaning of human conflict. It is part of the author's achievement that his effect is obtained without moralizing, wholly in terms of incident and drama.