The Best War Stories ed. Anon. (Hamlyn 0-600-38553-1, 1985, £5.95, 699pp, hc)
Massive anthology of 49 stories, articles and extracts about war.
- 9 · Black Sparta · Naomi Mitchison · nv
- 34 · The Hostages · Naomi Mitchison · ss Argosy (UK) Sep 1938
- 43 · Got to Put Up with It Now [from Vercingetorix and the Others] · Naomi Mitchison · ex
- 49 · The Battle of Lepanto, 1571 [from The History of Philip II, King of Spain] · W. H. Prescott · ex
- 60 · The Last Fight of the Revenge · Sir Walter Raleigh · ar
- 66 · Trafalgar [from Lord Nelson] · Robert Southey · ex
- 75 · Pierre a Prisoner [from War and Peace] · Leo Tolstoy; trans. by Louis & Aylmer Maude · ex The Oxford University Press 1933
- 91 · The Warrior’s Soul · Joseph Conrad · ss Metropolitan Magazine Dec 1917
- 108 · How the Brigadier Was Tempted by the Devil [Brigadier Gerard] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Sep 1895
- 127 · One of the Missing · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Mar 11 1888
- 137 · One Kind of Officer · Ambrose Bierce · ss
- 145 · Mary Postgate · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Century Magazine Sep 1915
- 157 · A Friend of the Family · Rudyard Kipling · ss A Diversity of Creatures, Macmillan and Co. 1917
- 169 · The Traitor [Ashenden] · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan Sep 1927
- 193 · The Tale · Joseph Conrad · ss The Strand Oct 1917, as “The Commanding Officer”
- 207 · The Night Patrol · “Taffrail” · ss
- 223 · The Day’s Work · “Sea-Wrack” · ss
- 243 · The Survivor · “Bartimeus” · ss
- 251 · Paul Baümer Meets the Enemy [from All Quiet on the Western Front] · Erich Maria Remarque; trans. by A. K. Wheen · ex The Bodley Head
- 266 · At All Costs · Richard Aldington · nv Roads to Glory
- 281 · The Taking of Montfaucon · James M. Cain · ss The American Mercury Jun 1929
- 292 · The Life and Adventures of Matthew Pavlichenko · Isaac Babel · ss The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, S.G. Phillips 1955
- 297 · Berestechko · Isaac Babel · ss The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, S.G. Phillips 1955
- 300 · The Coward of the Legion · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France, Murray 1917
- 308 · The Mule · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France, Murray 1917
- 321 · The Gardener · Rudyard Kipling · ss McCall’s Apr 1926
- 330 · Tell These Men to Go Away · Geoffrey Household · ss Argosy (UK) Oct 1965
- 336 · Out of the Depths · Sid Gorell · ss Twenty Singing Seamen, ed. Ronald Hope, Stanford Maritime
- 341 · Why? · Howard Spring · ss Eleven Stories and a Beginning, London: Collins 1972
- 353 · How Sleep the Brave · H. E. Bates · nv The Stories of Flying Officer X
- 385 · The Disinherited · H. E. Bates · ss The Stories of Flying Officer X
- 389 · The Offensive · Henri Thomas; trans. by Ken Thomson · ss French Short Stories I, ed. Pamela Lyon, Penguin 1966
- 397 · Survivor’s Leave · William Venables · ss Twenty Singing Seamen, ed. Ronald Hope, Stanford Maritime
- 403 · Wee Wullie · George MacDonald Fraser · ss GnlDncD
- 413 · Fear of Death · F. J. Salfeld · ss Short Stories of the Second World War, ed. D. M. Davin, Oxford University Press; listed as by F.J. Salfield in table of contents.
- 418 · The Prisoner’s Bike · Fred Urquhart · ss Modern Reading 1944
- 427 · Indecision · C. S. Forester · ss The Nightmare, Michael Joseph 1954
- 447 · The Unbelievable · C. S. Forester · nv The Nightmare, Michael Joseph 1954
- 471 · Daylight · Thomas Gilchrist · ss Twenty Singing Seamen, ed. Ronald Hope, Stanford Maritime
- 477 · A Richer Dust · Noël Coward · nv Collected Short Stories, Heinemann
- 508 · A Bar of Shadow · Laurens van der Post · ar The Cornhill Magazine Spr 1952
- 530 · The Cave · James A. Michener · nv Tales from the South Pacific, Macmillan 1947
- 555 · Fo’ Dolla’ · James A. Michener · na Tales from the South Pacific, Macmillan 1947
- 608 · Preach on the Dusty Roads · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker Aug 22 1942
- 616 · Retreat · Irwin Shaw · ss Collier’s Jan 27 1945
- 624 · Hal [from The Gallery] · John Horne Burns · ex
- 657 · Naples [from The Gallery] · John Horne Burns · ex
- 686 · Oral History · Nadine Gordimer · ss A Soldier’s Embrace, Viking Penguin 1975
- 695 · Weapon · John Christopher · ss The Twenty-Second Century, Grayson 1954
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