Once there was a war - Folio Society edition

Once there was a war

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Once there was a war - Folio Society edition
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Once there was a war
Folio Society
Literature

Once there was a war

John Steinbeck
Edition year 2013
Binding Buckram
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 224
Dimensions 23.6 × 16.7 cm

Edition details

Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck. Preface by Janine di Giovanni. Frontispiece and 12 black & white plates. Bound in light blue buckram wrap-around printed with a photograph of Ground Crews of the 324th Bomb Squadron, 26 February 1944. Dark blue slipcase and endpapers. 224pp. 23.6x16.7cm

About the book

Once There Was a War collects John Steinbeck's dispatches from the Second World War, written while he worked as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943. Travelling through England, North Africa and the Mediterranean, Steinbeck observed soldiers and civilians at close range, writing from troopships, bomber stations, military bases and areas preparing for combat. Rather than presenting a conventional military history, Steinbeck concentrates on the daily experiences, fears, humour and resilience of ordinary people caught up in war. His reports combine the eye of a novelist with firsthand wartime observation, offering vivid scenes of American servicemen overseas, London during the war and preparations for operations in the Mediterranean theatre. The result is an immediate and human account of the Second World War from one of America's major twentieth-century writers.

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