Yancey's War - Voices of the South Author:William Hoffman Declared the "best novel of the year" by the Cleveland Press when first published in 1966, Yanceys War is the story of ordinary men in an extraordinary off-the-main-track war. Marvin Yanceyshort, fat, over forty, sloppy, sycophantic, cowardlyis the most unlikely recruit at a Virginia training camp during World War II. He is cal... more »led a bootlicker and a toady to the army system, which he is, and all the men in his platoon find him disgusting. Yanceys upset of well-planned military maneuvers by overseeing a party that becomes an orgy and by spinning a laundry unit askew are some the novels funniest moments. In the end, this pocket-size Falstaff finds himself in actual combat across the oceanquivering, frightened, jelly-likeblundering his way to an irritating act of heroism.« less