Panther Soup: Travels Through Europe in War and Peace (Vintage Departures) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Gimlette, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307277917 ISBN 13: 9780307277916

Verlag: Vintage, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Gimlette John

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

"Wittily written explorations of time, space and character."
--The New York Times

"Reveals another range of Gimlette's skills. His ability to transport you to a foreign country is evidently transferable to a foreign time."
--Bloomberg News

"A book about the appetites of war and peace - for food, sex, and human comfort - unbridled, sordid and somehow, in their ability to lead a civilisation back to itself, redeeming."
--The New Yorker

"An exceptional piece of travel writing."
--Sunday Telegraph (London)

"A moving, often humorous, and thoroughly enjoyable account that works as both a wartime recollection and a travelogue . . . Gimlette strikes just the right notes in juxtaposing the past and present. He has provided a fine chronicle with broad appeal."
--Booklist

Reviews from the UK:

"Deeply moving . . . Panther Soup is an important book, reminding us of the links between old and new world, ideals and ideologies, war and peace in our phoenix-like continent. It is at once raw and erudite . . . It's also rich in black humour and insight."
--Guardian

"An original travel book, written in vigorous prose and exhaustively researched . . . It has at its heart a profound understanding of the 'soup'-the chaos and madness-of war."
--Daily Telegraph

"The war in all its messy, scrappy detail has always been more difficult to convey than the grand strategies of the generals who sent them there. [But] John Gimlette has found a useful and novel way to do so . . . Gimlette has a gift for travel writing with details of the most intimate kind, the small change and ammunition of a soldier's life . . . Panther Soup is a subtle book, with telling testimony from the survivors of what it was actually like to fight a war with few rules."
--Independent

"A book that works on many levels-historical guide, social history, moving reunion of people and place-and does each superbly."
--Wanderlust (Book of the Month)

"John Gimlette has a nose for the incongruous and the nonsensical. He glories in tracking down rogues, fantasists and eccentrics, and delights in preposterous sights and improbable juxtapositions. He is a dazzling entertainer . . . For his third book, Gimlette is geographically much closer to home, in the heart of Europe. But this is no ordinary saunter through familiar landscapes and well-chewed attitudes."
--Sunday Telegraph

"John Gimlette undertakes an extraordinary odyssey in this book . . . This is an effectual account full of telling detail."
--Irish Times

Reseña del editor:

Journeys back in time to retrace the footsteps of the U.S. military forces of 1944-45 as they criss-crossed Europe in pursuit of ultimate victory during World War II, following the vivid reminiscences of an eighty-eight-year-old veteran of the war as he describes his experiences throughout France, Germany, and Austria. Reprint.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307277917
• ISBN 13: 9780307277916
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432