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  • The Unsubstantial Air

    American Fliers in the First World War

    de Samuel Hynes ...
    The vivid account of the young Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I, told in their own words.The Unsubstantial Air is the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A War Imagined

    The First World War and English Culture

    de Samuel Hynes ...
    Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time. England after the war was a different place; the arts were different; history was different; sex, society, class were all different.Samuel Hynes examines the process of that transformation. He explores a vast cultural mosaic comprising novels and poetry, music and theatre, journalism, paintings, films, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • On War and Writing

    de Samuel Hynes ...
    "In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers metaphors for those other antagonisms, the private battles of our private lives, our conflicts with one another and with the world, and with ourselves. ... Leer más

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  • The Auden Generation

    de Samuel Hynes ...
    This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, ... Leer más

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  • Edwardian Turn Of Mind

    de Samuel Hynes ...
    The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Soldiers' Tale

    Bearing Witness to a Modern War

    de Samuel Hynes ...
    The Soldiers' 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 reflections on war with brilliantly chosen passages from ... Leer más

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  • The Pattern of Hardy's Poetry

    de Samuel Hynes ...
    The pattern in Hardy's poetry is the eternal conflict between irreconcilables that was, for him, the first principle, and indeed the only principle, of universal order. Hynes analyzes this pattern as it is manifested in the philosophical context of the poems, their structure, diction, and imagery. Originally published in 1961.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    The Unsubstantial Air

    American Fliers in the First World War

    de Samuel Hynes ...
    Narrado por Sean Runnette ...

    Completo

    11 hora 21 minutos

    The Unsubstantial Air is the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told through the voices of the aviators themselves.A World War II pilot himself, the memoirist and critic Samuel Hynes revives the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Return of the Soldier

    "Come here, Jenny. I'm going to dry my hair." And when I looked again I saw that her golden hair was all about her shoulders and that she wore over her frock a little silken jacket trimmed with rosebuds. She looked so like a girl on a magazine cover that one expected to find a large "15 cents" somewhere attached to her person. She had taken Nanny's big basket-chair from its place by the high-chair ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sagittarius Rising

    de Cecil Lewis ...
    A memoir by a WWI fighter pilot, with the adventurous spirit of War Horse and the charm of The Little PrinceA singular, lyrical book, Sagittarius Rising is at once an exuberant memoir from the Lost Generation and a riveting tale of the early days of flight during World War I. Cecil Lewis lied his way into the British Army’s Royal Flying Corps at age sixteen and was ordered to a squadron on the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Enormous Room

    Series series Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
    In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the western front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways soon got him tagged as a possible enemy of La Patrie, and he was summarily tossed into a French concentration camp at La Ferte-Mace in Normandy. Under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever elusive quest for ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective MEGAPACK ®

    25 Classic Tales of Detection

    The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack collects 25 novels and stories. 14 are Craig Kennedy tales, plus there is 1 additional story from the same author and 10 by contemporaries of Arthur B. Reeve. They all share the same spirit of detection.Included are:INTRODUCTION: ABOUT ARTHUR B. REEVE AND HIS CRAIG KENNEDY STORIESTHE SILENT BULLET, by Arthur B. ReeveTHE WAR TERROR, by Arthur B. ... Leer más

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