The He fell in October / Erich Maria Remarque. Marseille / Mulk Raj Anand -- Rajputs / Ernst Junger -- The Nightmare / D. H. Lawrence -- Done all that was expected of it / Siegfried Sassoon -- That necessary faculty for trench warfare / Siegfried Sassoon -- Destiny was not willing / Vera Brittain -- I thank you, sister / Vera Brittain -- Liquid fire / Helen Zenna Smith -- The Beauty of men who are whole / Helen Zenna Smith -- The Apocalypse of Pat McCullough / William Baylebridge -- Dawn's angel / Robin Hyde -- Before the war I was an interesting invalid / W. N. P. Barbellion -- The Square / Mary Borden -- The Beach / Mary Borden -- Conspiracy / Mary Borden -- In the operating room / Mary Borden -- A Real hero / Emilio Lussu -- You should have done nothing / Emilio Lussu -- The Austrian officer lit a cigarette / Emilio Lussu -- The Battle of the Isonzo / Carlo Emilio Gadda -- At Doberdob / Prezihov Voranc -- The Romance of War / Wyndham Lewis -- Political education under fire / Wyndham Lewis -- Cannon fodder / Richard Aldington -- A Timeless confusion / Richard Aldington -- Beethoven and Bach / A. T. Fitzroy -- Crevasse / William Faulkner -- Cushy avec mademoiselle / Frederic Manning -- Animals / Stratis Myrivilis -- Anchorites of lust / Stratis Myrivilis -- How Zafiriou died / Stratis Myrivilis -- Alimberis conquers his fear of shells / Stratis Myrivilis -- Gas / Stratis Myrivilis -- Sheep / Raymond Escholier -- The Blackbird / Robert Musil -- To the Romanian front / Liviu Rebreanu -- We'll see what you do there / Liviu Rebreanu -- Svejk goes to the war / Jaroslav Hasek -- Hut 5b / Miroslav Krleza -- My good Galacian forests / Milow Crnjanski -- The Democratic princple of discussion / Viktor Shklovsky -- I was afraid / Gabriel Chevallier -- Jerphanion writes to his wife / Jules Romains -- Julia remembers / Jean Giono -- The Salt of the earth / Jean Giono -- News from Joseph / Jean Giono -- Joseph's left hand / Jean Giono -- In ten thousand years, this war will be utterly forgotten / Louis-Ferdinand Celine -- Papa Marescot's family / Isaac Babel -- A Date with the shell / Dalton Trumbo -- Manger, aimer, payer / Willa Cather -- Who dies if England lives? / Irene Rathbone -- Evening at Violette / Rose Macaulay -- Veritable equine items of dentistry / Josep Pla -- One of the bravest men I ever knew / A. P. Herbert -- Infidels and curs / Vahan Totovents -- Why didn't he get rich? / Omer Seyfettin -- I surrender, camerade / James Hanley -- Mutiny! / Theodor Plievier -- Snow / Arnold Zweig -- Cavalry charge / Edlef Koppen -- My son is dead / Joseph Roth -- The Gibbet / John Galsworthy -- Sweet dreams though the guns are booming / Erich Maria Remarque -- The Dead man's room / Erich Maria Remarque -- He fell in October / Erich Maria Remarque.
Summary:
From the trenches to the home front, the most profound fiction inspired by World War I--and a moving memorial to the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event.
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