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Interweaving 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.
The wide range of writers examined includes both famous literary memoirists like Robert Graves, Tim O'Brien, and Elie Wiesel, 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.
Interweaving 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.
The wide range of writers examined includes both famous literary memoirists like Robert Graves, Tim O'Brien, and Elie Wiesel, 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.
Prologue: The Actual Killing
One. The Man Who Was There
Two. 'Fourteen-'Eighteen: Civilian Soldiers
Three. 'Fourteen-'Eighteen: The War Elsewhere
Four. Everybody's War
Five. What Happened in Nam
Six. Agents and Sufferers
An Epilogue on Epilogues
Notes on Sources
Personal Narratives of Modern War: A Selected List
Index
| Empfohlen (von): | 18 |
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| Erscheinungsjahr: | 1998 |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780140261547 |
| ISBN-10: | 0140261540 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Hynes, Samuel |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 197 x 129 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Samuel Hynes |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.04.1998 |
| Gewicht: | 0,359 kg |
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