ISBN: 0099268620
Godina izdanja: 1999
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Sebastian Faulks, Jörg Hensgen (editors) - The Vintage Book Of War
Stories
Vintage Books, 1999
396 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

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.

Volunteers / Bruce Chatwin
Could I be the last coward on earth? / Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Invisible enemies / David Malouf
How long it takes for a man to die! / Erich Maria Remarque
Wasteland / A.D. Gristwood
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
Woman on loan / Sebastien Japrisot
Treason / Isaac Babel
Thank God for the war / Laurie Lee
Crash / Andre Malraux
Postcard / Heinrich Boll
Defeat / Kay Boyle
Forest of the night / Jean-Louis Curtis
Everybody in London was in love / Elizabeth Bowen
Fire on the water / Alistair MacLean
Enigma / Robert Harris
Send in the clowns / Louis de Bernieres
Freedom / John Fowles
We you coming-to-get, Yank / Norman Miller
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
Last medieval war / Michael Ondaatje
My heart finally broke in Naples / John Horne Burns
Servant of death / Wolfgang Koeppen
Nazi city mourned at some profit / Kurt Vonnegut
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
Jungle of screaming souls / Bao Ninh
My favourite war / Christopher John Farley


Fiction, Short Stories, 0099268620