Penguin Classics Once There Was a War, (Paperback)

from jeffome

another good book from Steinbeck.....as with my recent reading of "The Moon is Down," this collection of vignettes treats the horror of war from a unique perspective.....hardly any blood and guts......just a study of the humanity of the American soldiers sent into duty and their efforts to remain...

from kcshankd

Steinbeck reporting WWII, from bomber bases in the UK, to North Africa and an Allied landing in Sicily, where Steinbeck was wounded. Odd to see included a picture of Steinbeck, his son, and LBJ before the boy deployed to Vietnam.

from JBreedlove

a work of non-fiction describing some of the people that Steinbeck met during his war reporting with the US during WWII.

from lamour

This is a collection of columns Steinbeck sent to papers in the US during 1943 from, England, North Africa, Sicily and Italy. The columns were brief but caught what it was like to be a soldier preparing for war and then fighting the war. A column that I found very interesting was one he wrote abo...

from Crazymamie

In 1943, John Steinbeck was a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, and the dispatches that he filed from overseas captured the backstory to the war. He did not publish these stories in book form until 1958, and then he did not edit them: "The pieces in this volume were written under...