A scholar and literary critic, Samuel Lynn Hynes Jr. deeply explored the subject of World War II. His writing is characterized by profound insights into the human psyche in the face of conflict, examining the experiences of soldiers and their impact on society. Hynes approaches this subject with the precision of a scholar and the sensitivity of a storyteller, offering readers penetrating perspectives on wartime experiences.
Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging cast of characters: Tories, Liberals and Socialists, artists and reformers, psychoanalysts and psychic researchers, sexologists, suffragettes and censors.
Presents personal views of war by soldiers from the two world wars and Vietnam