| Unknown Soldiers is the story of Clay- ton, Virginia, a little town gripped by war fever during the last days of World War II. Women roll bandages and tend victory gardens; men save gas coupons and complain about the O.P.A. Children brag about fathers and brothers overseasand long to grow up fast and fight. In the Duncan Kimball School, thepaper flotilla of battle ships, propelledby class contributions to the War BondDrive, is destroyed. Suspicion falls onPanimer, an oddly beautiful boy on theverge of early manhood. That suspicion, in a climate of warfever, turns mischief into trouble. In thethroes of his first real love, Panimerbecomes a one-man underground. Oncehero and terror of the schoolyard, hebecomes a joy-rider with stolen gas cou-pons, and mute during patriotic recita-tions. He sets off the air-raid siren, andsnoops around the yard of the only manin Clayton who won t sell his scrap forthe war effort. Silently, the town lines upagainst him as he unwittingly leads thetown closer and closer to what it darenot face-a huge warehouse whose cun-tents are a mystery. When the Sons of Clayton munitionsplant explodes, hlinding his mother andproviding the town with its unknownsoldier-a woman no one can identify--all hell slowly and quietly breaks looseuntil Panimer stumbles on the town ssecret--the warehouse-and the greedand corruption that feed on innocentpatriotism. |
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