| Description |
xvi, 396 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in Great Britain by Vintage UK ... in 1999." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-391). |
| Contents |
Volunteers / Bruce Chatwin -- Could I be the last coward on earth? / Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- Invisible enemies / David Malouf -- How long it takes for a man to die! / Erich Maria Remarque -- The wasteland / A.D. Gristwood -- The beauty of the battlefield / Stratis Myrivilis -- Going back / Ernest Hemingway -- Narrow escapes / William Boyd -- My own little show / Siegfried Sassoon -- Finished with the war / Pat Barker -- The woman on loan / Sebastien Japrisot -- Treason / Isaac Babel -- Thank God for the war / Laurie Lee -- Crash / André Malraux -- The postcard / Heinrich Böll -- Defeat / Kay Boyle -- The forests of the night / Jean-Louis Curtis -- Everybody in London was in love / Elizabeth Bowen -- Fire on the water / Alistair MacLean -- Enigma / Robert Harris. |
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Send in the clowns / Louis de Bernières -- Freedom / John Fowles -- We you coming-to-get, Yank / Norman Mailer -- No choice / James Jones -- We are about to kill a man / Shusaku Endo -- Hiroshima Joe / Martin Booth -- Wartime lies / Louis Begley -- Why are the men fighting? / Italo Calvino -- They were trying to kill me / Joseph Heller -- The last medieval war / Michael Ondaatje -- My heart finally broke in Naples / John Horne Burns -- A servant of death / Wolfgang Koeppen -- A Nazi city mourned at some profit / Kurt Vonnegut -- The hunters / James Salter -- How to tell a true war story / Tim O'Brien -- Be like the forest / Philip Caputo -- Paco's story / Larry Heinemann -- Welcome to Saigon / Christopher J. Koch -- The jungle of screaming souls / Bao Ninh -- My favourite war / Christopher John Farley. |
| Subject |
War stories.
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| Added Author |
Faulks, Sebastian.
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Hensgen, Jörg.
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| ISBN |
1400030404 paperback |
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