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100 1 $aHynes, Samuel,$d1924-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79132547
245 14 $aThe soldiers' tale :$bbearing witness to modern war /$cSamuel Hynes.
260 $aNew York :$bAllen Lane/Penguin Press,$c1997.
300 $axvi, 318 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aBased on the 1994 Alexander lectures.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 287-309) and index.
520 $aFocusing on the soldiers of the two world wars and Vietnam, and on the accounts written by victims of war - survivors of POW camps, the Nazi death camps, and the atom bombs - Samuel Hynes shows us how war looks to a soldier on the field at the Somme, or Khe Sanh, or the Salerno beachhead, to a pilot in a Spitfire over the Channel or a B-17 over Schweinfurt, or to a sailor in the Coral Sea.
520 8 $aHe draws from accounts recorded under fire and from memories that look back over decades, by both unknown authors whose battle memoirs are their only published work and literary memoirists like Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, Elie Wiesel and Tim O'Brien.
650 0 $aMilitary history, Modern$y20th century$vSources.
650 0 $aSoldiers$zUnited States$vDiaries.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112031
650 0 $aSoldiers$zGreat Britain$vDiaries.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112018
852 00 $bglx$hU42$i.H96 1997