The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen is a classic novel of World War II, which was made into the 1967 movie starring Lee Marvin. E. M. Nathanson's inspiration was a real-life World War II group called the "Filthy Thirteen". Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced to death or hard labor for life. They are the damned of the American Army. But at the last moment they are offered the opportunity of salvation: a mission just before D-Day. The chances of their getting away with it are about one in a million, but the damned don't care, and certainly don't count chances...