War stories
By: edited by Sebastian Faulks
Series: Vintage classics
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 2014
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780099597582; 9780099561156
Subjects: War stories; Short stories; Fiction
Description: "In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen have collected the best fiction about war in the twentieth century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories from a range of acclaimed authors depict a soldiers experience from call-up, battle and comradeship, to leave, hospital and trauma in late life. Truly intentional in scope, it forms a powerful and moving evocation of the horrrors of conflict"--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Volunteers / Bruce Chatwin; title: Could I be the last coward on earth? / Louis-Ferdinand Céline; title: Invisible enemies / David Malouf; title: How long it takes for a man to die! / Erich Maria Remarque; title: The wasteland / A.D. Gristwood; title: The beauty of the battlefield / Stratis Myrivilis; title: Going back / Ernest Hemingway; title: Narrow escapes / William Boyd; title: My own little show / Siegfried Sassoon; title: Finished with the war / Pat Barker; title: The woman on loan / Sebastien Japrisot; title: Treason / Isaac Babel; title: Thank God for the war / Laurie Lee; title: Crash / André Malraux; title: The postcard / Heinrich Böll; title: Defeat / Kay Boyle; title: The forests of the night / Jean-Louis Curtis; title: Everybody in London was in love / Elizabeth Bowen; title: Fire on the water / Alistair MacLean; title: Enigma / Robert Harris; title: Send in the clowns / Louis De Bernières.; title: Freedom / John Fowles; title: We you coming-to-get, Yank / Norman Mailer; title: No choice / James Jones; title: We are about to kill a man / Shusaku Endo; title: Hiroshima Joe / Martin Booth; title: Wartime lies / Louis Begley; title: Why are the men fighting? / Italo Calvino; title: They were trying to kill me / Joseph Heller; title: The last medieval war / Michael Ondaatje; title: My heart finally broke in Naples / John Horne Burns; title: A servent of death / Wolfgang Koeppen; title: A Nazi city mourned at some profit / Kurt Vonnegut; title: The hunters / James Salter; title: How to tell a true war story / Tim O'Brien; title: Be like the forest / Philip Caputo; title: Paco's story / Larry Heinemann; title: Welcome to Saigon / Christopher J. Koch; title: The jungle of screaming souls / Bao Ninh; title: My favourite war / Christopher John Farley.