Great World War II Stories
Publisher: Chartwell Books; Chartwell Books, Inc
Published: November 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 697
ISBN-13: 9781555214784
Subjects: Literary collections; Sale Books; War stories, American; War stories, English; World War, 1939-1945; Bargain Books
Table of contents: title: A perfect morning (from The young lions) / Irwin Shaw -- Lunghua camp (from Empire of the Sun) / J.G. Ballard -- The journey (from A town like Alice) / Nevil Shute -- The birth of an idea (from The man who never was) / Ewen Montague -- The big day (from From here to eternity) / James Jones -- Abducting the general (from Ill met by midnight) / W. Stanley Moss -- The landing at Kuralei (from Tales of the South Pacific) / James A. Michener -- Shall I live for a ghost (from The last enemy) / Richard Hillary -- Billy Pilgrim (from Slaughterhouse Five) / Kurt Vonnegut -- Battalion in defense (from Officers and gentlemen) / Evelyn Waugh -- Anopopei (from The naked and the dead) / Norman Mailer -- 'Plane land here' (from Wingate's raiders) / Charles J. Rolo -- Mission asymptote (from The white rabbit) / Bruce Marshall -- Fraternizing with the enemy? (from Reach for the sky) / Paul Brickhill -- Shooting party (from Grand party) Graham Brooks -- H-hour (from The longest day) / Cornelius Ryan -- Into Germany (from Carve her name with pride) / R.J. Minney -- Ironbottom Sound (from Ironbottom Sound) / Lindsay Baly -- The first bid for freedom (from The Colditz story) / P.R. Reed -- Some were unlucky (from Enemy coast ahead) / Guy Gibson, VC -- May 1941 (from Nella Last's diary) / Nella Last -- Major major major major (from Catch 22) / Joseph Heller -- The battle of the bulge (from The face of war) / Martha Gelhorn -- The invasion of Papua (from Retreat from Kokoda) / Raymond Paull -- No trouble at all (from The stories of flying officer X) / H.E. Bates -- Stalingrad -- The story of the battle (from Stalingrad -- point of return) / Ronald Seth -- The soldier looks for his family / John Prebble -- The white mouse and the Maquis d'Auvergne (from The white mouse) / Nancy Wake -- Fear of death / F.J. Salfeld -- The invaders (from The Moon is down) / John Steinbeck -- The compass rose (from The cruel sea) / Nicholas Monsarrat -- The diary of a desert rat (from The diary of a desert rat) / R.L. Crimp -- The Mannerheim Line (from Of many men) / James Aldridge -- Midway (from Torpedo Junction) / Robert J. Casey -- Hiroshima -- the fire (from Hiroshima) / John Hersey