Sticking to:
1) Novels about soldiers in actual combat (as opposed to
hard-boiled stories that just happen to be set during WW2)
and also are
2) Written by authors who are identified with
hard-boiled/noir crime fiction.
here are two more.
William P. McGivern's SOLDIERS OF '44. Set in the ETO, where
McGivern actually served (and where he was awarded a
Soldier's Medal for his service), McGivern, famous as the
author of THE BIG HEAT, ROGUE COP, etc., regarded it as his
best book.
Max Allan Collins's THE MILLION DOLLAR WOUND. A year or so
before this book appeared, Edward D. Hoch wrote an article in
which he noted that, since the hard-boiled PI figure is so
identified with the '40's, it's odd that no book has ever
dealt with the question of what private eyes, most of them
able-bodied young men, did during the most important
historical event of that decade. Collins answered that
question with this book. His series PI, Nate Heller, fresh
from completing an investigation into labor racketeering in
Hollywood, enlists in the Marines in time to fight in
Guadalcanal. Honorably discharged after receiving the titular
injury in battle, Heller returns home to find that the
Hollywood investigation wasn't as complete as he
thought.
JIM DOHERTY
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