Once There Was a War (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Steinbeck, Mr John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141186321 ISBN 13: 9780141186320

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

Synopsis

'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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Review:

If you have forgotten what the war was like, Steinbeck will refresh your memory. Age can never dull this kind of writing.
"Chicago Tribune"

aIf you have forgotten what the war was like, Steinbeck will refresh your memory. Age can never dull this kind of writing.a
a"Chicago Tribune"

"If you have forgotten what the war was like, Steinbeck will refresh your memory. Age can never dull this kind of writing."
-Chicago Tribune

-If you have forgotten what the war was like, Steinbeck will refresh your memory. Age can never dull this kind of writing.-
-Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be published in Penguin Modern Classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141186321
• ISBN 13: 9780141186320
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256