John Steinbeck: Once There Was a War, 1958 First Edition
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Once There Was a War, by John Steinbeck.
First Edition by The Viking Press, New York, 1958.
John Ernst Steinbeck (American, 1902 - 1968) won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.
In 1943, Steinbeck served as a war correspondent for the N.Y. Herald Tribune and worked with the OSS (CIA predecessor). There he became friends with Will Lang Jr. of Time/Life. During the war, Steinbeck accompanied the commando raids of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Beach Jumpers program, which launched small-unit diversion operations against German-held islands in the Mediterranean. At one point, he accompanied Fairbanks on an invasion of an island off the coast of Italy and used a Thompson submachine gun to help capture Italian and German POW. Some of his writings from this period were incorporated in this documentary Once There Was a War (1958).
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First Edition by The Viking Press, New York, 1958.
John Ernst Steinbeck (American, 1902 - 1968) won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.
In 1943, Steinbeck served as a war correspondent for the N.Y. Herald Tribune and worked with the OSS (CIA predecessor). There he became friends with Will Lang Jr. of Time/Life. During the war, Steinbeck accompanied the commando raids of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Beach Jumpers program, which launched small-unit diversion operations against German-held islands in the Mediterranean. At one point, he accompanied Fairbanks on an invasion of an island off the coast of Italy and used a Thompson submachine gun to help capture Italian and German POW. Some of his writings from this period were incorporated in this documentary Once There Was a War (1958).
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John Steinbeck: Once There Was a War, 1958 First Edition
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