Flights of Passage
Recollections of a World War II Aviator
$52.07
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
4 February 2003
Summary
Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on “The War”, directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes. “The War” is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007.
Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. I…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142002902 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0142002909 |
| Author: | Samuel Hynes |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 4 February 2003 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
An unusual and moving book … an authentic fragment, poignant and real, of a great and tumultuous past. (The Washington Post Book World)
An unusual and moving book … an authentic fragment, poignant and real, of a great and tumultuous past. (“The Washington Post Book World”)
“A compelling and honest memoir as well as a profound human document of a terrible and heroic time. Hynes’s story is fascinating, imaginative, and unforgettable”
“An unusual and moving book … an authentic fragment, poignant and real, of a great and tumultuous past.”
About The Author
Samuel Hynes
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.
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