Captain Hollister Author:David Chandler Mr. Roberts, Catch-22, M*A*S*H...Every so often a book comes along which is truly special. Captain Hollister is such a book. Captain Ernest Hollister, ex-assistant professor of Greek, felt a special kinship with the draftees who were called on to serve and die in a detestable war. Assinged to write the next-of-kin, Hollister shunned the mecha... more »nical inanities of Army-style documents to pen warm, personal letter which explain honestly how the deceased came to die. When one of the brass actually reads a Hollister masterpiece, the Captain soon finds himself in a war which is not waged on the battlefield. Frenetically funny, deadly serious and always gloriously absurd, Captain Hollister is a brilliant, inventive, powerful and very special book.« less