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  • Once There Was a War

  • Penguin Classics
  • By: John Steinbeck
  • Narrated by: Lloyd James
  • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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Do you know it, do you remember it, the drives, the attitudes, the terrors and, yes, the joys?

Thus Steinbeck introduces his collection of poignant and hard-hitting dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune when the Second World War was at its height. He begins in England, recounting the courage of the bomber crews, the tragic air-raids and the strangeness of the British, before being sent to Africa and joining a special operations unit off the coast of Italy. Eating, drinking talking and fighting alongside the soldiers, Steinbeck's empathy for the common man is always in evidence in these pieces, and he never fails to evoke the human side of an inhuman war.
©1958 John Steinbeck (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Essays Military Words, Language & Grammar Writing & Publishing War Nonfiction
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"If you have forgotten what the war was like, Steinbeck will refresh your memory. Age can never dull this kind of writing." (Chicago Tribune)

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Historical Reality presented factually

This was much better than I thought It would be from a compilation of war reports.

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Very good insight

Unique and interesting listening experience very unlike other books. Also.,the prologue and introduction added to the overall read

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