Book description
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.