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The Vintage book of war fiction / edited by Sebastian Faulks and Jörg Hensgen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Vintage, 2002.Description: xvi, 396 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 1400030404
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.83/9358 21
LOC classification:
  • PN6120.95.W35 V56 2002
Contents:
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.
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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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 808.839358 V789 Available 33111004169633
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-391).

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.

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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