In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks has collected the best
fiction about war in the twentieth century. Ranging from the First World War to
the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier's experience from call-up, battle
and comradeship, to leave, hospital and trauma in later life. Truly internationa
l in scope, this anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Bark
er, Isaac Babel and Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Boll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballar
d and Tim O'Brien, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernieres.
Together they form a
powerful and moving evocation of the horrors of war.
