Books written by Samuel Hynes
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The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War
A loop isn't a combat maneuver; it's an act of skill and nerve that you perform in the air, like a swan dive from the high ... the fancies of some comic artist, a Rube Goldberg or a Heath Robinson, than of a proper ordnance man at work.
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The Pattern of Hardy's Poetry
These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Edwardian Turn Of Mind
Cézanne Les Pétunias Dame au chapelet La Toilette Les Maisons La Route Baigneurs Le grand pin Petit chemin Portrait d'homme à cravate bleue La maison blanche La Montagne Victoire Maison à AuverssurOise La maison du pendu La Maison jaune ...
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World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater (LOA #351): With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa / Flights of...
In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. “Every generation is a secret society,” former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. “The ...
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Reporting World War II Vol. 2 (LOA #78): American Journalism 1944-1946
This Library of America volume (along with its companion) evokes an extraordinary period in American history—and in American journalism. Martha Gellhorn, Ernie Pyle, John Hersey, A.J. Liebling, Edward R. Murrow,...
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Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1946: A Library of America Paperback Classic
Here are William L. Shirer and Howard K. Smith inside Nazi Germany; A J. Liebling on the fall of France and the Tunisian campaign; Edward R. Murrow on the London Blitz and Buchenwald; Ernie Pyle on the war in the foxholes.
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Reporting World War II Vol. 1 (LOA #77): American Journalism 1938-1944
This Library of America volume is the first of a unique two-volume anthology. Drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and wartime books, Reporting World War II captures...
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The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War
Presents personal views of war by soldiers from the two world wars and Vietnam
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The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War
To the armchair aviator a balloon might seem an easy target: it floats there at the end of its cable, a few hundred feet from the ground, it can't move, it can't fight back, and it's flammable. Just get in close, take aim at the fat bag ...
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Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator
A gripping, literary recollection of a pilot's experiences during WWII.
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Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator
Perceptive, honest, and often very funny, this immensely readable account of a young pilot's rites of passage from an untrained cadet to warweary aviator, from youthful innocence to manhood is...
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The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War
"The vivid story of the young Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. The Unsubstantial Air is a chronicle of war that is more than a military history; it traces the lives and deaths of the young Americans who ...
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Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator
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,...
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On War and Writing
The essays in this book range from the personal (Hynes’s experience working with documentary master Ken Burns, his recollections of his own days as a combat pilot) to the critical (explorations of the works of writers and artists such as ...
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The Edwardian Turn of Mind
The Description for this book, The Edwardian Turn of Mind, will be forthcoming.