Title: Great World War II Stories
First published: November 1989
Description: 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
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, English Short stories, English fiction