Once There Was A War - John Steinbeck

Oh no, not another book about World War II - why ARE people still writing books about it more than fifty years after it ended? Even the BBC stopped making Dad's Army twenty-five years ago! I thought I'd read too many books about it years ago, and then I read Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - and I knew I'd read one too many. But I had to make an exception for John Steinbeck - the man who could have done for America, what Dickens did for England...if only they hadn't chosen to listen to McCarthy, Nixon and Reagan instead. Once There Was A War is a collection of his daily reports for the New York Herald Tribune from June 20th, to December ...  Read the complete review