Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator - Paperback
by Samuel Hynes
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780142002902ISBN-10:142002909UPC:9780142002902Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:World War II, Aviation & SpaceSize:7.74 x 5.02 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC7H6BSNXW
Flights of Passage: Recollections 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, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007.
Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still...
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780142002902ISBN-10:142002909UPC:9780142002902Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:World War II, Aviation & SpaceSize:7.74 x 5.02 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC7H6BSNXW
Samuel Hynes is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and the author of several major works of literary criticism, including The Auden Generation, Edwardian Occasions, and The Edwardian Turn of Mind. Hynes's wartime experiences as a Marine Corps pilot were the basis for his highly praised memoir, Flights of Passage. The Soldiers' Tale, his book about soldiers'...
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