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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... read more

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  1. Sebastian Faulks (Editor)
  2. Jörg Hensgen (Editor)

Other Contributors:

  1. Bruce Chatwin (Contributor)
  2. Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Contributor)
  3. David Malouf (Contributor)
  4. Erich Maria Remarque (Contributor)
  5. A. D. Gristwood (Contributor)
  6. Stratis Myrivilis (Contributor)
  7. Ernest Hemingway (Contributor)
  8. William Boyd (Contributor)
  9. Siegfried Sassoon (Contributor)
  10. Pat Barker (Contributor)
  11. Sébastien Japrisot (Contributor)
  12. Isaac Babel (Contributor)
  13. Laurie Lee (Contributor)
  14. André Malraux (Contributor)
  15. Heinrich Böll (Contributor)
  16. Kay Boyle (Contributor)
  17. Jean Louis Curtis (Contributor)
  18. Elizabeth Bowen (Contributor)
  19. Alistair MacLean (Contributor)
  20. Robert Harris (Contributor)
  21. Louis de Bernières (Contributor)
  22. John Fowles (Contributor)
  23. Norman Mailer (Contributor)
  24. James Jones (Contributor)
  25. Shusaku Endo (Contributor)
  26. Martin Booth (Contributor)
  27. Louis Begley (Contributor)
  28. Italo Calvino (Contributor)
  29. Joseph Heller (Contributor)
  30. Michael Ondaatje (Contributor)
  31. John Horne Burns (Contributor)
  32. Wolfgang Koeppen (Contributor)
  33. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Contributor)
  34. James Salter (Contributor)
  35. Tim O'Brien (Contributor)
  36. Philip Caputo (Contributor)
  37. Larry Heinemann (Contributor)
  38. Christopher J. Koch (Contributor)
  39. Bảo Ninh (Contributor)
  40. Christopher John Farley (Contributor)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Country: England
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0099268620
Page Count: 448

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