Guard of Honor Author:James Gould Gozzens "Guard if Honor is a large-scale, very busy, very masculine novel of three tense September days at the big air base in Ocanara, Florida, in 1943. Through the book circulate hundreds of characters swiftly etched and touched with the warmth, the fallacies, the humor, and the resignation of Army life; the story is packed with episodes . . . The no... more »vel holds some of the very best writing James Gould Cozzens has given us . . . Mr. Cozzens has re-created the busyness, the high tempo, the multiple intricacies of the life at a great training center: the panorama is so real that you grin with recognition time and again. The people who really matter in this book are he-men drawn to life and fascinating in conflict." -- Edward Weeks, The Atlantic« less