Samuel Hynes (1924-2019) was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of several books, including A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture, The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, The Growing Seasons: An American Boyhood Before the War, and, most recently, The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War. He was also a contributor to Ken Burns’s documentary The War.