Once There Was a War

Synopsis

'do you know it, do you remember it, the drives, the attitudes, the terrors and, yes, the joys? ' thus steinbeck introduces his collection of poignant and hard-hitting dispatches for the new york herald tribune when the second world war was at its height. He begins in england, recounting the courage of the bomber crews, the tragic air-raids and the strangeness of the british, before being sent to africa and joining a special operations unit off the coast of italy.