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Glendon Swarthout was the only child of Fred and Lila (Chubb) Swarthout, a banker and a homemaker.

Glendon Swarthout was the only child of Fred and Lila (Chubb) Swarthout, a banker and a homemaker. Swarthout is a Dutch name; his mother's maiden name was from Yorkshire. Swarthout generally did well in school, especially in English. He was a Michigan high school debate champion. Several other works were sold for films which were never made; these include The Eagle and the Iron Cross (Sam Spiegel, 1968) and The Tin Lizzie Troop (Paul Newman, 1977), as well as a number of movie options, now lapsed, on his many stories.

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Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Are you an author? Learn about Author Central. Glendon Swarthout (Author). Even then I'd go looking for a paperback. I found the entire premise of the story to be totally ridiculous and unbelievable. I would tell anyone thinking of reading this book to do so only if you don't have anything else to read. Of course with the large selection of Kindle books I'm certain you could find a better book than this.

That wasn't the best title for this unusual story told from the POV of some German soldiers in a desert POW camp The Eagle and the Iron Cross is another forgotten masterpiece by the late Arizona novelist Glendon Swarthout. Its film rights have been gathering dust in late producer's Sam Spiegel's company, now part of Sony/Columbia Pictures.

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THE SHOOTIST is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West.

The nail biters, thumb suckers and teeth grinders at the Box Canyon Boys Camp were called the Bedwetters. They were the cast-away offspring of parents who were busy traveling, being divorced, remarrying and garnering fortunes. THE SHOOTIST is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West. He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, on the day Queen Victoria died, there to be told by a doctor that he must soon confront the greatest shootist of all: Death himself. In such a showdown, against such an antagonist, he cannot win.

Used availability for Glendon Swarthout's Eagle and the Iron Cross. January 1977 : UK Paperback.

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All of the white men are invariable ugly (and the . Army personnel are morally stunted). After one of the Nazi youths is murdered by the vigilantes, the other is saved not by the cavalry but the Indians who come riding up. However, the remaining Nazi goes on a vendetta after the vigilantes and the novel's climax is both spectacular and fiery. In a final irony, the last Nazi makes his way back to the prison camp because he can't stand the prejudice he encounters everywhere, and the story ends in bloody tragedy triggered by a psychotic .

Glendon Swarthout was the only child of Fred and Lila Swarthout, a banker and a homemaker

Glendon Swarthout was the only child of Fred and Lila Swarthout, a banker and a homemaker. Swarthout is a Dutch name from the area around Groningen, in the Netherlands, and his mother’s maiden name was Chubb, from English farmers out of Yorkshire. Besides the films actually made from his novels, several others have also been sold for filming but never made, among them: "The Eagle And The Iron Cross" (Sam Spiegel, 1968), "The Tin Lizzie Troop" (Paul Newman, 1977), and "The Homesman" (Paul Newman, 1988), as well as a number of film options, now lapsed, on his many stories.