Flights of Passage - 9780142002902
Un libro in lingua di Samuel Hynes edito da Penguin Group USA, 2003
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"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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Flights of Passage
- Sottotitolo: Recollections of a World War II Aviator
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Samuel Hynes
- Editore: Penguin Group USA
- Collana: Penguin Group USA (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Febbraio '03
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American
- Pagine: 272
- Dimensioni mm: 196 x 127 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0142002909
- EAN-13: 9780142002902