# Once There Was a War

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- Book: [Once There Was a War](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-steinbeck/once-there-was-a-war) ([Once There Was a War.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-steinbeck/once-there-was-a-war.md))
- Authors: [John Steinbeck](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-steinbeck)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-632-0
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2001-05-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Set in England, Africa and Italy this collection of Steinbeck's World War II news correspondence was written for the New Yolk Herald Tribune in the latter part of 1943.