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16 produkter
Peace Is a Shy Thing
The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien
Av Alex Vernon
Inbunden, 2025
435 kr
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The first literary biography of Tim O'Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, drawing on never-before-seen materials and original interviews. "Vietnam made me a writer." Tim O'Brien Featuring over one hundred interviews with …
Peace Is a Shy Thing
The Life and Art of Tim O''Brien
Av Alex Vernon
E-bok, 2025
364 kr
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The first literary biography of Tim O''Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, drawing on never-before-seen materials and original interviews. "Vietnam made me a writer." —Tim O''Brien Featuring over one hundred interviews with …
Soldiers Once and Still
Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien
Av Alex Vernon
Häftad, 2007
226 kr
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Looks back through the twentieth century in order to confront issues of self and community in veterans' literature, exploring how war and the military have shaped the identities of Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien, three of the twentieth century's most respected authors.
Hemingway's Second War
Bearing Witness to the Spanish Civil War
Av Alex Vernon
Häftad, 2011
305 kr
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In 1937 and 1938, Ernest Hemingway made four trips to Spain to cover its civil war for the North American News Alliance wire service and to help create the pro-Republican documentary film The Spanish Earth. Hemingway’s Second War is the first book-length scholarly work devoted to this …
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O'Brien
Av Alex Vernon, Catherine Calloway
Inbunden, 2010
1106 kr
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“The works of Tim O’Brien are among the most significant recent contributions to a lengthy canon of war literature,” write the editors of this volume; they serve “as an ideal point of entry for discussions of war and its human impact.” The author of the highly acclaimed The Things They Carried, …
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O'Brien
Av Alex Vernon, Catherine Calloway
Häftad, 2010
454 kr
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“The works of Tim O’Brien are among the most significant recent contributions to a lengthy canon of war literature,” write the editors of this volume; they serve “as an ideal point of entry for discussions of war and its human impact.” The author of the highly acclaimed The Things They Carried, …
Teaching Hemingway and War
Av Alex Vernon
Häftad, 2016
571 kr
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In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.” …
Reading Hemingway's for Whom the Bell Tolls
Glossary and Commentary
Av Alex Vernon
Häftad, 2024
541 kr
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A line-by-line analysis of one of Hemingway's greatest novels Published in 1940, Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls is widely considered a masterpiece of war literature. A bestseller upon its release, the novel has long been both admired and ridiculed for its depiction of Robert Jordan's …
Eyes of Orion
Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War
Av Alex Vernon
E-bok, 1997
280 kr
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Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award, The Eyes of Orion is a highly personal account of the day-to-day experiences of five platoon leaders who served in the same tank battalion in the 24th Infantry Division during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. While …
Eyes of Orion
Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War
Av Alex Vernon
E-bok, 2011
280 kr
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Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award, The Eyes of Orion is a highly personal account of the day-to-day experiences of five platoon leaders who served in the same tank battalion in the 24th Infantry Division during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. While …
Most Succinctly Bred
Av Alex Vernon
E-bok, 2013
197 kr
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A memoir on being a soldier “At this moment, the nation seems interested in soldiering. Not the politics that complicate the very act of service, but the dirty business of being a soldier. No one, except soldiers, knows much about the aftermath of such service. most succinctly bred opens the …
Most Succinctly Bred
Av Alex Vernon
E-bok, 2013
197 kr
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A memoir on being a soldier “At this moment, the nation seems interested in soldiering. Not the politics that complicate the very act of service, but the dirty business of being a soldier. No one, except soldiers, knows much about the aftermath of such service. most succinctly bred opens the …
Teaching Hemingway and War
Av Alex Vernon
E-bok, 2016
566 kr
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In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.” …
Teaching Hemingway and War
Av Alex Vernon
E-bok, 2016
566 kr
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In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.” …
Reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Glossary and Commentary
Av Alex Vernon
E-bok, 2024
552 kr
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A line-by-line analysis of one of Hemingway’s greatest novels Published in 1940, Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls is widely considered a masterpiece of war literature. A bestseller upon its release, the novel has long been both admired and ridiculed for its depiction of Robert Jordan’s …
Reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Glossary and Commentary
Av Alex Vernon
E-bok, 2024
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A line-by-line analysis of one of Hemingway’s greatest novels Published in 1940, Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls is widely considered a masterpiece of war literature. A bestseller upon its release, the novel has long been both admired and ridiculed for its depiction of Robert Jordan’s …
