Once There Was a War, John SteinbeckA Penguin Classic Age can never dull this kind of writing, writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbecks dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943, which vividly captured the human side of war. Writing from England in the midst of the London blitz, North Africa, and Italy, Steinbeck focuses on the people as opposed to the battles, portraying everyone from the guys in the bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour. He

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