The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War - Hardcover

Hynes, Samuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713991909 ISBN 13: 9780713991901

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1997

Synopsis

Presents personal views of war by soldiers from the two world wars and Vietnam

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Review:

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.

About the Author:

Samuel Hynes is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and the author of several major works of literary criticism, including The Auden Generation, Edwardian Occasions, and The Edwardian Turn of Mind. Hynes's wartime experiences as a Marine Corps pilot were the basis for his highly praised memoir, Flights of Passage. The Soldiers' Tale, his book about soldiers' narratives of the two world wars and Vietnam, won a Robert F. Kennedy Award. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0713991909
• ISBN 13: 9780713991901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336