Sam Hynes was a young Marine bomber pilot in World War II. He flew more than 100 missions against the Japanese. He was just 18 when he left home to learn to fly and 21 at the war's end. In this memoir, he remembers the sensations he experienced in his rites of passage from untrained cadet to war-weary aviator, from innocence to manhood. He presents portraits of his fellow aviators, of the wonder of flying and of the madness of war. Samuel Hynes is author of "The Auden Generation" and "Edwardian Occasions" and editor of the ...
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Sam Hynes was a young Marine bomber pilot in World War II. He flew more than 100 missions against the Japanese. He was just 18 when he left home to learn to fly and 21 at the war's end. In this memoir, he remembers the sensations he experienced in his rites of passage from untrained cadet to war-weary aviator, from innocence to manhood. He presents portraits of his fellow aviators, of the wonder of flying and of the madness of war. Samuel Hynes is author of "The Auden Generation" and "Edwardian Occasions" and editor of the three volume "Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy".
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HYNES, Samuel. FLIGHTS OF PASSAGE. Reflections Of A World War II Aviator. NY: Frederic C. Beil/ Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, [1988]. 8vo., blue cloth in dust jacket; 270 pages. First Edition. Fine (ink name & address front endpaper) in nice d/j. $10.00.
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No other book I've read expresses so simply and clearly the magic of flying. Hynes became a bomber pilot in World War II when he was barely out of his teens. His memoir tells of those years, without extravagance of language or emotion and yet so evocatively that the reader nods in agreement: this is how it feels. Of his training Hynes writes, "we began to have some feeling for the movement of the plane, some sense of the harmony that exists between a pilot's body and his machine.... We had come to be at ease in space." Flying isn't all "Flights of Passage" is about, of course: it's about growing up, marrying, assuming responsibility, accepting fear and exhilaration and love. It's moving, and funny, a book to read and put back on your shelf to re-read.
