Table of Contents

Introduction

BRUCE CHATWIN Volunteers

LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE Could I Be the Last Coward on Earth?

DAVID MALOUF Invisible Enemies

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE How Long It Takes For a Man to Die!

A.D. GRISTWOOD The Wasteland

STRATIS MYRIVILIS The Beauty of the Battlefield

ERNEST HEMINGWAY Going Back

WILLIAM BOYD Narrow Escapes

SIEGFRIED SASSOON My Own Little Show

PAT BARKER Finished with the War

SEBASTIEN JAPRISOT The Woman on Loan

ISAAC BABEL Treason

LAURIE LEE Thank God for the War

ANDRÉ MALRAUX Crash

HEINRICH BÖLL The Postcard

KAY BOYLE Defeat

JEAN-LOUIS CURTIS The Forests of the Night

ELIZABETH BOWEN Everybody in London Was in Love

ALISTAIR MACLEAN Fire on the Water

ROBERT HARRIS Enigma

LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES Send in the Clowns

JOHN FOWLES Freedom

NORMAN MAILER We You Coming-to-Get, Yank

JAMES JONES No Choice

SHUSAKU ENDO We Are About to Kill a Man

MARTIN BOOTH Hiroshima Joe

LOUIS BEGLEY Wartime Lies

ITALO CALVINO Why Are the Men Fighting?

JOSEPH HELLER They Were Trying to Kill Me

MICHAEL ONDAATJE The Last Medieval War

JOHN HORNE BURNS My Heart Finally Broke in Naples

WOLFGANG KOEPPEN A Servant of Death

KURT VONNEGUT A Nazi City Mourned at Some Profit

JAMES SALTER The Hunters

TIM O’BRIEN How to Tell a True War Story

PHILIP CAPUTO Be Like the Forest

LARRY HEINEMANN Paco’s Story

CHRISTOPHER J. KOCH Welcome to Saigon

BAO NINH The Jungle of Screaming Souls

CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY My Favourite War