Shaw's novel 'The Young Lions' achieved fame almost immediately upon its writing—and continues to enjoy deserved popularity today. The Washington Post named it the fourth-best American novel about World War II, while the British Guardian included it among '1,000 books everyone should read.' Three soldiers. Three boys, thrown by history onto opposite sides of the trenches of a great and terrible war. The naive German Christian Diestl, who believed Hitler's tales of 'Germany's great destiny.' The tormented American Jew Noah Ackerman, eternally tormented by his own inner demons. And the brilliant bohemian intellectual from California, Michael Whitacre. Three boys. Three destinies. And one great war for all, which will one day bring them together...