Rebecca West

Samuel Lynn Hynes

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The Essential Rebecca West

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 not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places--the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people--the other young pilots, the girls and the young wives, even the enemy pilots. He remembers friendship, and the excitement and tedium of war, the high exhilaration of flying, and the dying. More than a tale of combat, "Flight of Passage" is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air.

Reflections of a World War II Aviator

Flights of Passage

Presents personal views of war by soldiers from the two world wars and Vietnam

Bearing Witness to Modern War

The Soldiers' Tale

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. This book offers a portrait of a tumultuous time - out of which contemporary England was made.

Samuel Lynn Hynes

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