<p> Since the publication of <i>Wicked</i>, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion. </p> <p> At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's <i>A Lion Among Men</i> is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics. </p>