Once There Was a War (Penguin Modern Classics)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B002RI9JIM
Publish date: May 3rd 2001
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 258
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
American,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
War,
World War II
Steinbeck for Steinbeck's sake. Nothing particularly brilliant or memorable here, but these essays are full of that signature Steinbeck voice. Though I've read the majority of Steinbeck's writing, it wasn't until reading Once There Was a War that I saw in Steinbeck's lighthearted writing a compariso...
Once There Was A War is a collection of Steinbeck's daily reports for the New York Herald Tribune from June 20th, to December 13th, 1943. He travels with American troops to England, to Africa, and then witnesses the capture of the Italian island of Ventotene (a German radar station) by "five men in ...