Title: The Soldiers' tale
First published: 1997
Description: Focusing on the soldiers of the two world wars and Vietnam, and on the accounts written by victims of war - survivors of POW camps, the Nazi death camps, and the atom bombs - Samuel Hynes shows us how war looks to a soldier on the field at the Somme, or Khe Sanh, or the Salerno beachhead, to a pilot in a Spitfire over the Channel or a B-17 over Schweinfurt, or to a sailor in the Coral Sea.

He draws from accounts recorded under fire and from memories that look back over decades, by both unknown authors whose battle memoirs are their only published work and literary memoirists like Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, Elie Wiesel and Tim O'Brien.
Subjects: Diaries, Military history, Modern, Modern Military history, Soldiers, Sources, Military history, War, psychological aspects, War and literature
Places: Great Britain, United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: U42 .H96 1997