The Vintage Book Of War Stories by Sebastian Faulks, Jörg Hensgen (ed.)
Requirements: Epub reader/Mobi reader, 1.78 Mb
Overview: In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks has collected the best fiction about war in the 20th century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier`s experience from call-ups battle and comradship to leave, hospital and trauma in later life. Truely international in scope, this anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Issac Babel and Ernest Hemingway , Heinrich Boll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O`Brian Julian Barnes and Louis de Barnieres. Together they form a powerful and moving evocation of the horors of war.
Genre: Historical Fiction, War, Short Stories
Contents:
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
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