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The Vintage Book Of War Stories
Sebastian Faulks
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Description for The Vintage Book Of War Stories
Paperback. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, this title includes stories that depict a soldier's experience from call-up, battle and comradeship, to leave, hospital and trauma in later life. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen have 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 international in scope, this anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Isaac Babel and Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Boll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O'Brien, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernieres. Together they form a powerful and moving evocation of the ... Read more
In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen have 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 international in scope, this anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Isaac Babel and Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Boll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O'Brien, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernieres. Together they form a powerful and moving evocation of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
303g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099561156
SKU
V9780099561156
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He ... Read more
Reviews for The Vintage Book Of War Stories
The range is international, the impeccable standards of writing never dip. This is some of the finest writing about war
Independent on Sunday
An anthology that tries, in a century that has made an art form of killing, to make sense of it all
Guardian
A substantial and compelling read
Metro
Independent on Sunday
An anthology that tries, in a century that has made an art form of killing, to make sense of it all
Guardian
A substantial and compelling read
Metro