The Millennium Lecture Series: Two Books, Two Perspectives: World War I Centennial Date
The Princeton Library in New York presents Samuel Hynes, author of The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War and Edward Strauss, a fundraising consultant, historian & translator of Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918, as part of the Millennium Lecture Series
Join us as Mr. Hynes & Mr. Strauss converse about their respective books. Both books enlighten readers about two distinct aspects of the First World War – the war in the trenches, and the war in the air.
Samuel Hynes is the author of Flights of Passage, a celebrated memoir of serving as a Marine pilot in World War II. His book on soldiers’ accounts of twentieth-century wars, The Soldiers’ Tale, won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was a featured commentator on Ken Burn’s documentary The War. He is also the author of several works of literary and cultural criticism, including The Auden Generation and The Edwardian Turn of Mind, and a second memoir, The Growing Seasons.
Edward M. Strauss, is a fundraising consultant and historian, formerly publisher of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. A graduate of Princeton University (A.B. 1972), he lives with his wife Anne Strauss and daughters Louisa and Ellie in New York City.
There is no charge to attend this event but reservations in advance are required.
To reserve your space, please contact Erin Tahaney, Library, at 212-596-1250 or library@princetonclub.com.