They Shall Not Sleep
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 8th printing
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markings
In the thick of the Second World War's most brutal theatres, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Leland Stowe bears unflinching witness to the human cost of global conflict in They Shall Not Sleep. Drawing on his firsthand reporting from the front lines of Asia, the Middle East, and the Soviet Union, Stowe chronicles the suffering, resilience, and quiet heroism of soldiers and civilians alike — a world at war rendered with the precision of a journalist and the conscience of a humanist. The title itself, borrowed from the haunting cadence of John McCrae's In Flanders Fields, sets the moral tone from the very first page. Written with urgent, propulsive clarity, They Shall Not Sleep stands as a landmark of wartime non-fiction, demanding that readers confront the true human toll behind the headlines. Stowe's reportage is never merely factual — it pulses with moral outrage and deep compassion, holding governments and generals accountable while never losing sight of the individual lives at stake. A vital document of one of history's darkest hours, this work leaves the reader asking a question as relevant today as it was in 1944: who truly pays the price of war?
Author: Leland Stowe
Format: Hardback
Published: 1944, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: WW2
Edition: 8th printing
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markings
In the thick of the Second World War's most brutal theatres, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Leland Stowe bears unflinching witness to the human cost of global conflict in They Shall Not Sleep. Drawing on his firsthand reporting from the front lines of Asia, the Middle East, and the Soviet Union, Stowe chronicles the suffering, resilience, and quiet heroism of soldiers and civilians alike — a world at war rendered with the precision of a journalist and the conscience of a humanist. The title itself, borrowed from the haunting cadence of John McCrae's In Flanders Fields, sets the moral tone from the very first page. Written with urgent, propulsive clarity, They Shall Not Sleep stands as a landmark of wartime non-fiction, demanding that readers confront the true human toll behind the headlines. Stowe's reportage is never merely factual — it pulses with moral outrage and deep compassion, holding governments and generals accountable while never losing sight of the individual lives at stake. A vital document of one of history's darkest hours, this work leaves the reader asking a question as relevant today as it was in 1944: who truly pays the price of war?