Vintage what happened between them at school one summer during the early years of world war two is the subject of a separate peace. A great best seller for over 20 years one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brewed over the tortured world of adolescence. I think it is the best written, best designed and most moving novel I have read in many years. beginning with a tiny incident any among ordinary boys it ends by being as deep and as big as evil itself