And We Were Young — Elliott Baker

Four members of an infantry rifle squad who fought alongside each other during the Second World War find their lives again intertwining four years later This was the time when television was in its infancy It plays a minor part in their story But it is the growing tentacles of McCarthyism which entangle them and lead to their destroying each other And We Were Young has been praised as the best novel written about this evil period which is still shamefully remembered