A collection of Steinbeck's dispatches filed for the "New York Herald Times" at the height of World War II. Eating, drinking, talking and fighting alongside the soldiers, Steinbeck's empathy for the common man is always in evidence in these pieces, as he evokes the human side of an inhuman...

A collection of Steinbeck's dispatches filed for the "New York Herald Times" at the height of World War II. Eating, drinking, talking and fighting alongside the soldiers, Steinbeck's empathy for the common man is always in evidence in these pieces, as he evokes the human side of an inhuman war.