books by Samuel Hynes     books:     Samuel Hynes      A WAR IMAGINED: FIRST WORLD WAR AND ENGLISH CULTURE SAMUEL HYNES PIMLICO, 1992             The Enormous Room (Penguin Classics) e. e. cummings Penguin Classics, 1999 An Enormous Achievement Written by America's most inventive poet, "The Enormous Room" is a book of prose set in a French detention camp during World War One. It is a coming-of-age story in which events happen, not always to the narrator (E.E. Cummings), but to the inhabitants of a place that ...             The Return of the Soldier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Rebecca West Penguin Classics, 1998 A beautiful work This is a beautiful book. I had to read it for class, but I absolutely loved it. I read it in a day and as soon as I finished, I wanted to re-read it. It was heartbreaking and wonderfully written.             Reporting World War 2 Library of America, 2001 I wish I could give it six stars... This two-volume set is as gripping as the very best fictional thrillers. The writing quality is amazingly good -- perhaps reporters were just better educated in those days, or maybe the drama of the war brought out the very best in them. There is an immediacy to these ...             A Gun for Sale (Penguin Classics) Graham Greene Penguin Classics, 2005 Should be considered major Mine is clearly a minority opinion, but I think this novel is actually more complex and interesting than many other critics and readers do. I remember first reading it in a college British literature class and finding Greene's juxtaposition of a typical crime novel, ...             Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator Samuel Hynes Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003 Flights of Passage soars.... Mr. Hynes work originally attracted me because, as an aviation historian, I enjoy first person accounts. My interest was drawn to the book when he mentioned that some of his training was in Florida--my state of birth. Having noticed the town Deland in his account I ...             The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War Samuel Hynes Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998 It is indeed "bearing witness to modern war." Who best can describe war but the men who fought them? True, all personal accounts of war are highly focused, confined as they are to the tight little theater of each writer's involvement. Or involvements as in the case of that German officer's memorable account of his ...             Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator Samuel Hynes Naval Inst Pr, 1988 Not Your Usual Personal Memoir. "Flights Of Passage" by Samuel Hynes. Subtitled: "Reflections Of A World War II Aviator". Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1988. Samuel Hynes flew for the United States Marine Corps in the Second World War. God bless him. His personal memoir follows ...             Soldiers Tale Bearing Witness to Modern War Samuel Lynn Hynes Penguin, 1997 The Soldier's Tale 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. Interweaving his own ...             Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) Gerard Manley Hopkins Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 the greatest poetry ever written Gerard Manley Hopkins is the greatest English poet to ever put pen to paper, bar none. Yes, even better than Shakespeare. Every student of English lit should read Hopkins. Hopkins writes from a profound love and awe of God and the beauty of His creations, but also from ...             The Growing Seasons: An American Boyhood Before the War Samuel Hynes Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004 Poignant if a bit acidic This is a prequel to the author's great war memoir, Flights of Passage, which I read with much appreciation 23 May 2001. If you have not read that book, by all means read this one first, then read it. This book is an account of a not extraordinary boyhood, but it is ...          products you might be interested in search for books recollections, reflections, reporting, soldiers, twentieth, twentieth-century      toavi.com    web we recommend I wish I could give it six stars... randomly chosen book: Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in ...