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Once There Was a War

John Steinbeck

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English
Penguin
26 June 2001
Set in England, Africa and Italy this collection of Steinbeck's World War II news correspondence was written for the New Yolk Herald Tribune in the latter part of 1943.
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   200g
ISBN:   9780141186320
ISBN 10:   0141186321
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Once There Was a War

Steinbeck's war dispatches were memorable, not perhaps for their historical value as a record but because of the vivid personal angle, the human bits, the vitality of capturing the feel of the war as seen on a troopship, in an airbase in England, behind the lines, and so on. The scene shifts from England, to North Africa, to Italy- and always the same discernment, compassion, understanding of the little man that informs and distinguishes his fiction makes pulsing and alive these stories behind the scenes. His Introduction discounts their authenticity, as he marshals the factors operating against the war correspondent, the self imposed strictures, the censorship, the accepted tenets of sustaining morale on the home front. But even with this playing down of the integral values, they read once again as first hand stories of young America at war- told by a peerless story teller. Good journalism, yes, but good literature as well. (Kirkus Reviews)


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