Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team by John Steinbeck · Audiobook preview
PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAAB0fVd9MM Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team Authored by John Steinbeck Narrated by Scott Aiello 0:00 Intro 0:03 Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team 0:16 Introduction 10:16 Outro #johnsteinbeck #bombsawaythestoryofabomberteam — GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS Find your next great read with Google Play Books. Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you. Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android — BOOK DESCRIPTION A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth–century writers A Penguin Classic On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account of his experiences with U.S. Army Air Force bomber crews during World War II. Now, for the first time since its original publication in 1942, Penguin Classics presents this exclusive edition of Steinbeck's introduction to the then–nascent U.S. Army Air Force and its bomber crew––the essential core unit behind American air power that Steinbeck described as "the greatest team in the world." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English–speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up–to–date translations by award–winning translators. — ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty–five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929). After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with Tortilla Flat (1935), stories about Monterey’s paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the… — AUDIOBOOK DETAILS Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAAB0fVd9MM Language: English Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Published on: April 5, 2016 ISBN: 9780698406346 Duration: 4 hr, 36 min Genres: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures, History / Military / Aviation & Space, Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events
