NO MORE WAR: He’s best known for...

NO MORE WAR: He’s best known for “The Dirty Dozen” and its sequel, “The Dirty Distant War.” But E.M. Nathanson of Laguna Niguel, co-author of “Knight’s Cross,” a new World War II-set novel about a real-life mission to kidnap Adolf Hitler (E1), hates being typecast as a World War II novelist. . . . “I’ve been trying to get away from it,” says Nathanson, who has had contemporary novel ideas turned down. “You know: You play Tarzan, from now on you always play Tarzan. It’s ridiculous.”