Samuel Hynes: 7 books

Book cover of On War and Writing
by Samuel Hynes
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

     “In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers metaphors for those other antagonisms, the...
Book cover of The Unsubstantial Air

The Unsubstantial Air

American Fliers in the First World War

by Samuel Hynes
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014

The Unsubstantial Air is the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told through the words and voices...
Book cover of A War Imagined

A War Imagined

The First World War and English Culture

by Samuel Hynes
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011

Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time. England after the war was a different place; the arts were different; history was different; sex, society, class were all different. Samuel Hynes examines the process of that transformation. He explores...
Book cover of Edwardian Turn Of Mind
by Samuel Hynes
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011

The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. 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. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics,...
Book cover of The Soldiers' Tale

The Soldiers' Tale

Bearing Witness to a Modern War

by Samuel Hynes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998

The Soldiers' Tale is the story of modern wars as told by the men who did the actual fighting. Hynes examines the journals, memoirs, and letters of men who fought in the two World Wars and in Vietnam, and also the wars fought against the weak and helpless in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps,...
Book cover of The Pattern of Hardy's Poetry
by Samuel Hynes
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018

The pattern in Hardy's poetry is the eternal conflict between irreconcilables that was, for him, the first principle, and indeed the only principle, of universal order. Hynes analyzes this pattern as it is manifested in the philosophical context of the poems, their structure, diction, and imagery....
Book cover of The Auden Generation
by Samuel Hynes
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011

This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private...
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