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Once There Was a War

By John Steinbeck

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
2001
ISBN
0141186321, 9780141186320
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
258 kB (263735 bytes)
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Pages
256\0
Topic
History
Time added
2017-10-04 01:06:42
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Description

'Do you know it, do you remember it, the drives, the attitudes, the terrors and, yes, the joys?' Thus Steinbeck introduces his collection of poignant and hard-hitting dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune when the Second World War was at its height. He begins in England, recounting the courage of the bomber crews, the tragic air-raids and the strangeness of the British, before being sent to Africa and joining a special operations unit off the coast of Italy. Eating, drinking talking and fighting alongside the soldiers, Steinbeck's empathy for the common man is always in evidence in these pieces, and he never fails to evoke the human side of an inhuman war.'If you have forgotten what the war was like, Steinbeck will refresh your memory. Age can never dull this kind of writing.'Chicago Tribune

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