The Loneliness of the Modern Warrior: Matt Murphy’s “A Beckoning War”

by Prashant Keshavmurthy If there is a literary history of the modern warrior then Matthew Murphy's A Beckoning War should be its latest chapter and, surely, its finest. Told in the third-person, the novel narrates “the Allied advance through the Gothic Line in Northern Italy in September 1944” almost wholly through the perspective of Captain…