{"product_id":"flights-of-passage-recollections-of-a-world-war-ii-aviator-paperback","title":"Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamuel Hynes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Hynes served as a consultant on \"The War\", directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The War\" is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam 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, \u003ci\u003eFlight of Passage\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Hynes is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and the author of several major works of literary criticism, including \u003cb\u003eThe Auden Generation\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eEdwardian Occasions\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Edwardian Turn of Mind\u003c\/b\u003e. Hynes's wartime experiences as a Marine Corps pilot were the basis for his highly praised memoir, \u003cb\u003eFlights of Passage\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eThe Soldiers' Tale\u003c\/b\u003e, his book about soldiers' narratives of the two world wars and Vietnam, won a Robert F. Kennedy Award. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 7.74 x 5.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47298598404281,"sku":"9780142002902","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/4309\/4713\/files\/w17Qbzz1pX9780142002902.webp?v=1779965425","url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/flights-of-passage-recollections-of-a-world-war-ii-aviator-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}