{"product_id":"the-soldiers-tale-bearing-witness-to-a-modern-war-9780140261547","title":"The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Soldiers' Tale\u003c\/b\u003e is the story of modern wars as told by the men who did the actual fighting. Hynes examines the journals, memoirs, and letters of men who fought in the two World Wars and in Vietnam, and also the wars fought against the weak and helpless in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and bombed cities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterweaving his own reflections on war with brilliantly chosen passages from soldiers' accounts, he offers vivid answers to the question we all ask of men who have fought: What was it like? In these powerful pages the experiences of modern war, which seem unimaginable to those who weren't there, become comprehensible and real. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe wide range of writers examined includes both famous literary memoirists like \u003cb\u003eRobert Graves, Tim O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eElie Wiesel\u003c\/b\u003e, and unknown soldiers who wrote only their war stories. Using these testimonies, Hynes considers each war in terms of its special circumstances and its effects on men who fought. His understanding of the psychology of warfare--and of each war's role in history--gives this study its intellectual authority; the voices of the men who were there, and wrote about what they saw and felt, give it its powerful dramatic impact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140261547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.78h x 5.16w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert F. Kennedy Book Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/20\/2001 pg. 50\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Samuel Hynes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44683422531765,"sku":"9780140261547","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_81aa6ef9-fc8d-4fd1-9743-aa5ed0cf1701.jpg?v=1727795822","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-soldiers-tale-bearing-witness-to-a-modern-war-9780140261547","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}