Steinbeck, John

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This is a collection of Steinbeck's dispatches filed for the New York Herald Times at the height of World War II. Steinbeck's empathy for the common man is always in evidence in these pieces, as he evokes the human side of an inhuman war.

[The author's] dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943 ... capture the human side of war. Writing from England in the midst of the London blitz, North Africa, and Italy, [he] focuses on the people as opposed to the battles, portraying everyone…