# The long march Author: Styron, William, 1925-2006 Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76604 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+long+march+Styron&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary One noon, in the blaze of a cloudless Carolina summer, what was left of eight dead boys lay strewn about the landscape, among the poison ivy and the pine needles and loblolly saplings. It was not so much as if they had departed this life but as if, sprayed from a hose, they were only shreds of bone, gut, and dangling tissue to which it would have been impossible ever to impute the quality of life, far less the capacity to relinquish it. Of course, though, these had really died quickly, no doubt before the faintest flicker of recognition, of wonder, apprehension, or terror had had time to register in their minds. But the shock, it occurred to Lieutenant Culver, who stood in the shady lee o... ## Chapters - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-long-march-76604/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-long-march-76604/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-long-march-76604/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-long-march-76604/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-long-march-76604/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-long-march-76604/chapters/6/index.md)