William L. O'Neill, an "admired and provocative 20th-century historian who examined America's political radicals and its not always wise behavior in war," died March 29, the New York Times reported. He was 80. His dozen books include The Last Romantic: A Life of Max Eastman, Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s, The New Left: A History, and A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home & Abroad in World War II.
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E.M. Nathanson, whose bestselling 1965 novel The Dirty Dozen "became the basis of one of the most enduring, if preposterous, World War II movies to come out of Hollywood," died April 5, the New York Times reported. He was 88. His other books include A Dirty Distant War, The Latecomers, It Gave Everybody Something to Do (with Louise Thoresen), Knight's Cross (with Aaron Bank) and Lovers and Schemers.
