The Soldiers' Tale : Bearing Witness to a Modern War
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Having served as a Marine pilot in World War II and the Korean War, Princeton literature professor Samuel Hynes is closely acquainted with conflict. He collates his experiences with those of dozens of other witnesses--poets such as Wilfred Owen and Ernst Jünger, conscience-stricken warriors such as Ryuji Nagatsuka and Philip Caputo, and resistance fighters such as Lucie Aubrac and Elena Skrjabina. Many of these witnesses are men and women from all sides of many struggles and from whom we've not heard before. Their voices add weight to Hynes's ideas that war is strange and terrible, and is waged largely against the innocent and powerless.
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The New York Times Book Review, Gardner Botsford
Samuel Hynes's unusual and eloquent book is partly a meditation on war and the effect is can have on the young men who do the fighting, and partly a survey of the vast literature produced by these men . . . in the form of of memoirs, diaries, reports, journals, letters and novels . . . "War is not an occassional interuption of a normality called peace; it is a climate in which we live." Regrettably, he is right, and that is what makes The Soldier's Tale so compelling. A first-rate piece of work in every way.
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The Soldiers' Tale : Bearing Witness to a Modern War
The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War,Samuel Hynes,Penguin (Non-Classics),0140261540,20th century,Biography & Autobiography,Diaries,Great Britain,History - Military / War,Military,Military - General,Military history, Modern,Soldiers,Sources,United States,History / General
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