In this powerful anthology, Sebastian Faulks, author of the international bestseller Birdsong, and Jörg Hensgen have put together some of the finest fictional writing about war in the 20th century. Whether reporting with sober clarity or raw despair, the assembled novelists each found a way to transcend the facts of death and metal, tanks and blood. Many of the writers are concerned with battle, but others dwell on moments of calm, love, and friendship. From revolutionary Russia to Republican Spain; from the trenches of the Western Front to the skies over Korea and the jungles of Vietnam, this…mehr
In this powerful anthology, Sebastian Faulks, author of the international bestseller Birdsong, and Jörg Hensgen have put together some of the finest fictional writing about war in the 20th century. Whether reporting with sober clarity or raw despair, the assembled novelists each found a way to transcend the facts of death and metal, tanks and blood. Many of the writers are concerned with battle, but others dwell on moments of calm, love, and friendship. From revolutionary Russia to Republican Spain; from the trenches of the Western Front to the skies over Korea and the jungles of Vietnam, this is a book filled with heroism and horror, savagery and compassion, and lightning-flashes of anarchic humor.
Introduction BRUCE CHATWIN Volunteers LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE Could I Be the Last Coward on Earth? DAVID MALOUF Invisible Enemies ERICH MARIA REMARQUE How Long It Takes For a Man to Die! A.D. GRISTWOOD The Wasteland STRATIS MYRIVILIS The Beauty of the Battlefield ERNEST HEMINGWAY Going Back WILLIAM BOYD Narrow Escapes SIEGFRIED SASSOON My Own Little Show PAT BARKER Finished with the War SEBASTIEN JAPRISOT The Woman on Loan ISAAC BABEL Treason LAURIE LEE Thank God for the War ANDRÉ MALRAUX Crash HEINRICH BÖLL The Postcard KAY BOYLE Defeat JEAN-LOUIS CURTIS The Forests of the Night ELIZABETH BOWEN Everybody in London Was in Love ALISTAIR MACLEAN Fire on the Water ROBERT HARRIS Enigma LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES Send in the Clowns JOHN FOWLES Freedom NORMAN MAILER We You Coming-to-Get, Yank JAMES JONES No Choice SHUSAKU ENDO We Are About to Kill a Man MARTIN BOOTH Hiroshima Joe LOUIS BEGLEY Wartime Lies ITALO CALVINO Why Are the Men Fighting? JOSEPH HELLER They Were Trying to Kill Me MICHAEL ONDAATJE The Last Medieval War JOHN HORNE BURNS My Heart Finally Broke in Naples WOLFGANG KOEPPEN A Servant of Death KURT VONNEGUT A Nazi City Mourned at Some Profit JAMES SALTER The Hunters TIM O’BRIEN How to Tell a True War Story PHILIP CAPUTO Be Like the Forest LARRY HEINEMANN Paco’s Story CHRISTOPHER J. KOCH Welcome to Saigon BAO NINH The Jungle of Screaming Souls CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY My Favourite War Biographical Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgements
Introduction BRUCE CHATWIN Volunteers LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE Could I Be the Last Coward on Earth? DAVID MALOUF Invisible Enemies ERICH MARIA REMARQUE How Long It Takes For a Man to Die! A.D. GRISTWOOD The Wasteland STRATIS MYRIVILIS The Beauty of the Battlefield ERNEST HEMINGWAY Going Back WILLIAM BOYD Narrow Escapes SIEGFRIED SASSOON My Own Little Show PAT BARKER Finished with the War SEBASTIEN JAPRISOT The Woman on Loan ISAAC BABEL Treason LAURIE LEE Thank God for the War ANDRÉ MALRAUX Crash HEINRICH BÖLL The Postcard KAY BOYLE Defeat JEAN-LOUIS CURTIS The Forests of the Night ELIZABETH BOWEN Everybody in London Was in Love ALISTAIR MACLEAN Fire on the Water ROBERT HARRIS Enigma LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES Send in the Clowns JOHN FOWLES Freedom NORMAN MAILER We You Coming-to-Get, Yank JAMES JONES No Choice SHUSAKU ENDO We Are About to Kill a Man MARTIN BOOTH Hiroshima Joe LOUIS BEGLEY Wartime Lies ITALO CALVINO Why Are the Men Fighting? JOSEPH HELLER They Were Trying to Kill Me MICHAEL ONDAATJE The Last Medieval War JOHN HORNE BURNS My Heart Finally Broke in Naples WOLFGANG KOEPPEN A Servant of Death KURT VONNEGUT A Nazi City Mourned at Some Profit JAMES SALTER The Hunters TIM O’BRIEN How to Tell a True War Story PHILIP CAPUTO Be Like the Forest LARRY HEINEMANN Paco’s Story CHRISTOPHER J. KOCH Welcome to Saigon BAO NINH The Jungle of Screaming Souls CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY My Favourite War Biographical Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgements
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