Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Excellent tale of war and coming of age

"Song of the Young Sentry" is one of my favorite World War Two novels. Steve Lang and his aircrew are shot down over Italy in the early days of America's involvement in World War Two. They soon find themselves in an Italian POW camp. Steve is a bright but lazy young man, not given to physical effort or labor and prior to becoming a soldier he had led an easy life in America. In the camp he learns how to survive, make friends, and surprisingly, flourish in the face of considerable, although not overwhelming, adversity. Life in the POW camps is realistically portrayed, and the reader quickly becomes interested in Steve, his compatriots, and Steve's march towards maturity. This is an excellent novel and Steve could have been any of us. Highly recommended. RJB.