Ernest Hemingway, ed.: Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time (1942)•
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Ernest Hemingway, ed. Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time. 1942. Bramhall House. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1979.
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World War II Anthologies
For fifteen years or so I taught a first year introductory Creative Writing course at Massey University. It was divided in two halves: prose (first), then poetry. I tried to emphasise the kinship between the two with the help of the following quote from one of my own mentors, poet Kendrick Smithyman:
‘Poetry’s not in the pity, but it might just be in the story …’The reason I mention it here is because one of the stories we read, and which I therefore had to lecture on (again and again and again) was Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants."
It's written almost entirely in dialogue: like a one-act play. Some of the students (usually the mature ones) got the point of it right away - others needed to have it spelt out for them. But the subtlety and precision of his storytelling was an ideal introduction for them to the whole art of writing. Use no words you don't need; leave out everything which is not to the purpose.
As Hemingway's old friend Ezra Pound reminded his fellow Imagists and Vorticists: "Poetry must be as well written as prose." When the prose in question is this good, that's a pretty tall order.
"Hills like White Elephants" was first published in 1927, two years before A Farewell to Arms - in my opinion Hemingway's most lasting achievement: one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.It doesn't get much better than that.
It was, however, a rather different Hemingway who edited the massive, 1,000 page anthology Men at War (available since in a variety of abridged forms) in the early days of the Second World War. This was a Hemingway embittered by the experience of the Loyalist defeat in the Spanish Civil War, a Hemingway fresh from writing the almost equally powerful - but definitely more engagé - For Whom the Bell Tolls.
While the publishers were careful to specify that the book was based on a plan - which presumably included the section titles from Clausewitz's On War - by a certain William Kozlenko, all the actual selections must have been sanctioned, if not actually initiated, by Hemingway himself. They're quite a mixed bag. There are extracts from the Bible and from classical literature alongside up-to-date dispatches from the Front. He even included a chapter from his own latest novel, "The Fight on the Hilltop", alongside Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, reprinted in full.
You can find a complete table of contents for the book, both in its complete hardback and abridged paperback forms, further down in this post.
WWII USMC Capt. Andrew A. “Ack Ack” Haldane chose to pack this hardcover 2 ½ lb. book with over 1,000 pages on his mission to the South Pacific islands. Author E. B. Sledge mentioned in his book With the Old Breed that Haldane, his company CO, who was KIA at Peleliu, had inscribed A. A. Haldane in his copy of Men at War.After repeated watchings, I've come to regard The Pacific as one of the greatest TV war series of all time. It may be less immediately engrossing than Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's earlier HBO TV series Band of Brothers (2001), but it's more rewarding in the long run.- Goodreads: Men at War
Just as they'd done with Band of Brothers, the producers looked for a suitable book to base it on. In the end they chose two: Robert Lecky's Helmet for My Pillow (1957) and Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (1981).
Band of Brothers came hot on the heels of the mega-successful Spielberg movie Saving Private Ryan (1998). It also had the advantage of telling a single, connected story, based on a recent, best-selling title.
The Pacific is, by the very nature of the story it sets out to tell, far more disjointed. Also, if one wanted to see it as following in the footsteps of a film, that film would have to be either Terrence Malick's haunting and meditative The Thin Red Line (1998), about the invasion of Guadalcanal, or - perhaps more plausibly - Clint Eastwood's powerful diptych about Iwo Jima: Flags of Our Fathers / Letters from Iwo Jima (2006).
Certainly The Thin Red Line is a more "difficult" film than the dazzling, crowd-pleasing Saving Private Ryan. As one critic said of the former: "Some films deal in plot truth; this one expresses emotional truth, the heart's search for saving wisdom". That doesn't sound like a guarantee of opening weekend success!
As for Clint Eastwood's two movies, deconstructing the heroic fiction of the Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima was always going to be a tough bite to swallow. Perhaps the only thing more problematic than that would be an attempt to tell the story from the point of view of the Japanese defenders of the island ...
You can only salute Eastwood's courage - and contrariness - in even attempting such a project. It it doesn't entirely succeed in dramatic terms, his achievement in getting the two films made at all is awe-inspiring.
George Macy, ed. A Soldier's Reader: A Volume Containing Four Hundred Thousand Words of Select Literary Entertainment for the American Soldier on the Ground or in the Air. New York: The Heritage Press, 1943.
It's certainly encouraging - though a little surprising - to hear that at least one of Eugene Sledge's fellow marines was prepared to lug Hemingway's immense anthology with him around the Pacific islands. The second of our wartime anthologies, George Macy's A Soldier's Reader (along with its companion volume the Sailor's Reader) is a far more compact volume: ideally suited to be stuffed into a backpack, with robust binding under its gaudy, disposable dustjacket.
This attention to design is understandable in so aesthetically self-conscious a publisher. George Macy is most famous for having founded the Heritage Press, a forerunner of Britain's Folio Society in the production of fine editions of classic texts.
I wrote a short piece about him on this blog a couple of years ago, à propos of some rather pretty illustrated editions of Baudelaire and Yeats I'd just bought.
Oddly, while there are plenty of websites which reproduce the covers and illustrations of his book, I was unable to locate a picture of the man himself. One of the best of these sites, George Macy Imagery, does, however, include an interesting piece on his 1943 publication A Sailor's Reader, designed as the pair to the Soldier's Reader, of which I'm lucky to own a fairly pristine copy.
The dustjacket for A Soldier’s Reader says: “400,000 words of literary entertainment for the fighting man: 9 full-length books, long stories & novelettes, 12 short stories, 15 essays & general features, over 250 great poems: put together with the desire to meet the soldier’s varying moods, by George Macy for the Heritage Press”.Compared to Hemingway's selection, Macy's idea of what an American soldier or sailor might actually enjoy reading is far more varied - if not, at times, even a little recondite. Flaubert, Melville, Turgenev - these are some of the authors he includes, alongside more up-to-date short stories by the likes of John Cheever and James Thurber (the first appearance in book form of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty").
Once again, you can find a complete table of contents for the Soldier's Reader further down in this post, along with some notes on just how it differs from its close cousin the Sailor's Reader.
There are some war stories and articles scattered across its pages. There's even some doubling with Hemingway's anthology - the extract from T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom entitled "Torture", for instance. For the most part, though, it seems to be an anthology designed to entertain those already committed to the war, rather than - like Hemingway's - a book designed to persuade the people of the United States to join in.
George Macy, ed. A Sailor's Reader: A Volume Containing Four Hundred Thousand Words of Select Literary Entertainment for the American Sailor on the Water or in the Air. New York: The Heritage Press, 1943.
A. P. Wavell, ed. Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry Compiled by Field-Marshall Earl Wavell. 1944. London: Jonathan Cape, 1945.
This is what his publishers have to say about Field Marshal Wavell's wartime poetry anthology Other Men's Flowers:
First published in 1944, during the darkest days of the war, Lord Wavell's great anthology of English poetry - enhanced by his own introduction and annotations - encouraged and delighted many thousands of readers. It has remained in print every since, proving beyond doubt that, whatever the fashion of the day, poetry can fulfil its ancient function, finding its way to the hearts of the many, not only to the minds of the few.Hemingway's book appeared in 1942. Macy's twin anthologies came out in 1943. Wavell's, the only British contribution to our list, had to wait until 1944.
One of the most surprising things about the book is that it ever got written at all. Wavell was the British Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East from 1940 until mid-1941: surely quite a demanding job? He was transferred to to the Far East ("under the pagoda tree," as Churchill put it) to serve as Commander-in-Chief in India after being outwitted by his German counterpart, Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox.
Wavell was in command out East from July 1941 until June 1943, until he was replaced after the disastrous Arakan campaign in Burma. Instead he was chosen to serve as Viceroy of India, a position he held until 1947. Which leads you to wonder when he found the time to transcribe - and annotate - these 250-odd poems? It must have been his principal occupation in those odd hours of leisure outside the office.
Wavell went into retirement with a great sense of bitterness at having been unable to "complete his work in India." Given his at least partial responsibility for the horrors of partition (though it's unfair to blame him for the catastrophic Bengal famine of 1943, which was principally due to his predecessor, Lord Linlithgow), this seems a little insensitive, to say the least. He did have the ever-growing sales of his anthology to comfort him, though. A revised and expanded 'Memorial edition', introduced by his son, came out after his death, in 1952.
Why did people buy it? Why do they still do so? Curiosity about what Field Marshals like to read, for the most part, I suspect. Like Wavell, I too am a fan of Victorian narrative verse, but I wouldn't otherwise describe this as a selection particularly calculated to speak to "the hearts of the many, not only to the minds of the few."
What you won't find here is any of the great dissident poetry of the First World War; nor are the selections from Kipling, whom one would have thought quite Imperialist enough for Wavell, particularly well chosen. There's a great deal of Browning, and a lot of poems by Francis Thompson. Wordsworth and Tennyson, who "have never registered an impression on my memory", as Wavell puts it, are conspicuous by their absence.
Many of his comments on the art of poetry now sound a bit embarrassing: "Poets writing lyric poems choose words for their beauty and set them to dance to a tune", for instance. Contrast that with W. H. Auden's mordant: "many a flawless lyric may be due / Not to a lover's broken heart, but 'flu."
It's hard to go too far wrong when selecting a series of "memorisable" (and, therefore, presumably, recitable) poems from the great back-catalogue of English Verse. Or so one would have thought, at any rate. My attempts to use it for that purpose have not been particularly successful, however - I've had to fall back on de la Mare's Come Hither (1923) and Q's turn-of-the-century Oxford Book of English Verse, instead.
It is distinctly interesting that, at this vital moment in the war, the British should have preferred a poetry anthology to the more meaty prose collections provided for American soldiers and sailors. Perhaps the Brits felt in a more purely elegiac than expository frame of mind by then. There is something a little poignant in this passage from the preface to the 1947 revised edition:
A tribute which I greatly valued came in the form of an annotated copy which a friend sent me. The annotations had been made by a soldier who read Other Men's Flowers during the period of his final training for D-Day in Normany. As he read each poem he put the date on which and sometimes the circumstances in which he had read it; and added his comments of enjoyment, indifference, or dislike. He had finished the volume while crossing to Normandy and had fallen in battle shortly afterwards. ... I am proud that my selection should have helped him in those days, and that it was on the whole to his taste."I hope that it may have helped and entertained many such others. If so, it served its purpose." I don't think there's any doubt that his book did precisely that. You'll find a complete table of contents at the foot of this post, along with additions (and subtractions) from the original 1944 line-up printed inside square brackets.
A. P. Wavell, ed. Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry Compiled by Field-Marshall Earl Wavell. 1944. Memorial Edition with an Introduction by His Son. 1952. Penguin Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960.
Paul Fussell, ed. The Norton Book of Modern War. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.
Some fifty years after Hemingway's pioneering anthology, literary critic (and WWII combat veteran) Paul Fussell compiled what really has to be seen as a sequel - or perhaps a riposte: The Norton Book of Modern War. Fussell's book is concerned specifically with the twentieth century's freight of appalling, genocidal conflicts. (To avoid confusion, I should mention that the same book, with the same text, was released a year later in the UK as The Bloody Game).
Hemingway must have seemed an obvious choice for so "manly" a project as an anthology of writing about war, but why Paul Fussell? The answer is simple: the continuing influence of his ground-breaking book The Great War and Modern Memory (1975).
As his publishers put it:
In sections ranging from fiction to poems, to simple letters home, this book presents the voices of this century's major conflicts: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Contributors include Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Norman Mailer and Michael Herr.The book is divided into five sections:
- The First World War
- The Spanish Civil War
- The Second World War
- The Wars in Asia
- Afterwords
[2004]: Why hasn't anyone reviewed this? It's been out for years and it's extraordinary. ... There's only one disappointment, but it had to happen: None of Fussell's works is here. That's the problem with having one of the best writers on war edit a book on war, some of the greatest work is left out. But his stuff is out there. Read it all.I'm not too sure about the first of these reviews: written by a close friend - if not the author himself - perhaps? But the others sound pretty authentic to me. I particularly like the honesty of the guy who admits to just skipping all the poems and sticking to the prose extracts instead.
[2004]: ... its one down side was the poems interspersed throughout the prose, so basically i just skipped or skimmed them, but the prose included - WOW! from World War I to the Spanish Civil War to WWII to Korea to Vietnam, just an amazing selection of writings of people's experiences in war. if there's any book that's going to make you anti-war it's this one. buy this book and expand your education!
[2006]: ... From the first world war, Fussell includes sections on the Spanish Civil War, The Second World War, Korea and Vietnam. James Jones' "The Thin Red Line" includes an insightful analysis of the un-making of a warrior: the military is good at molding men, but not so good at restoring them to society. (Look at the PTSD of many Vietnam vets, Gulf War Syndrome, and the kind of violent ennui evidenced in the recent movie "Jarhead").
I spent 13 months in Saigon in l969 and 1970 as a broadcaster with Armed Forces Radio and TV. Part of my duties was to cover the "Five O'Clock Follies" --the daily press briefings orchestrated by MACOI, the MAC-V Office of Information. By then most of the journalistic heavyweights had left: David Halberstam, Neill Sheehan, Sy Hersh and others. But I recall sitting at the rooftop bar at the Caravelle Hotel and watching the war as the incoming flares dropped into the Perfume River.(It was like a scene from Graham Greene's "The Quiet American."
[2013]: I was assigned the book for my veteran studies class and other than that I do not read the book because I do not enjoy the book.
I suppose that it's something to do with my age and my generation, but Fussell's is the only one among these four anthologies that really speaks to me. That's probably because the tenor of it is "anti-war", as the second of our reviewers observes. And I presume that's also why the student from the "Veteran Studies" class disliked it so much.
Another reviewer simply gave it five stars and wrote the single word "Awesome." I'd concur with that. I enjoyed looking through all of these anthologies, but Fussell's is the only one I read from cover to cover with real excitement.
Here's a link to the complete Table of Contents. It's the same in both the US and the UK editions.
War Anthologies (1942-1991):
- Ernest Hemingway: Men at War (1942)
- George Macy: A Soldier's Reader (1943)
- A. P. Wavell: Other Men's Flowers (1944)
- Paul Fussell: The Bloody Game (1991)
Books I own are marked in bold:
- Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time. 1942. Bramhall House. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1979.
- Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time. Abridged ed. 1966. Fontana Books. London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1969.
Publisher's Note:
Acknowledgments are due to William Kozlenko for the plan from which this book was developed, and for the suggestion of a number of the stories; also to Edmund Fuller, Fred. C. Rodewald, Albert Seadler and the many others whose suggestions and contributions helped to make this book.
Table of Contents
- Ernest Hemingway: Introduction
War is Part of the Intercourse of the Human Race
- Julius Caesar: The Invasion of Britain
- Charles Oman: The Battle of Hastings
- Jean de Joinville: The French Crusade, 1249-1250 A.D.
- Charles Oman: The Battle of Arsouf
- William Hickling Prescott: The Death Of Montezuma
- Eric Jens Petersen: Who Called You Here?
- Richard Hillary: The Invaders
- Pedro Menéndez De Avilés: The Massacre at Matanzas Inlet
War is the Province of Danger, and therefore Courage
above All Things is the First Quality of a Warrior
- Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
- Sir Archibald Hurd: The Blocking of Zeebrugge
- Livy: Horatius at the Bridge
- Lloyd Lewis: Shiloh, Bloody Shiloh!
- The Bible How David Slew Goliath
- Ernest Hemingway: The Fight on the Hilltop
- Sir Thomas Malory: The Last Battle of King Arthur
- Richard Aldington: At All Costs
- Charlotte Yonge: The Pass of Thermopylae
- Colonel Theodore Roosevelt: The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon
- Marquis James: Deguelo
War is the Province of Physical Exertion and Suffering
- T. E. Lawrence: Torture
- Frank Thiess: Tsushima
- Alden Brooks: The Parisian
- Xenophon: The March to the Sea
- Laurence Stallings: Vale of Tears
- Alden Brooks: The Odyssey of Three Slavs
War is the Province of Uncertainty
- C. S. Forester: Gold from Crete
- Leonard Ehrlich: Harper’s Ferry
- Frederic F. Van de Water: Custer
- C. S. Forester: An Egg for the Major
- Mary Johnston: The Merrimac and the Monitor
- Admiral George Dewey: Manila Bay
- Alan Moorehead: Tank Fighting in Libya
- T. E. Lawrence: Blowing up a Train
War is the Province of Chance
- General Marbot: Lisette At Eylau
- Marquis James: The Stolen Railroad Train
- William Faulkner: Turn About
- Virgil: The Trojan Horse
- Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall: Air Battle
- Count Leo Tolstoy: The People’s War
- Marquis James: The Wrong Road
- Victor Hugo: The Corvette Claymore
- Arthur D. Divine: Miracle at Dunkirk
War is the Province of Friction
- Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller: Gallipoli
- Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.: The Stars in Their Courses
- Victor Hugo: Waterloo
- Ernest Hemingway: The Retreat from Caporetto
- Livy: The Battle Of Cannae
- Sir Edward S. Creasy: The Victory of the Americans at Saratoga
- Thomas M. Johnson & Fletcher Pratt: The Lost Battalion
War Demands Resolution, Firmness, and Staunchness
- Count Leo Tolstoy: Bagration’s Rearguard Action
- Agnes Smedley: After the Final Victory
- Private 19022: Her Privates We
- Count Leo Tolstoy: Borodino
- Robert Southey: Trafalgar
- Lloyd Lewis: The Battle of Atlanta
- Winston Churchill: The Cavalry Charge at Omdurman
- General Marbot: The Sun of Austerlitz
- Walter D. Edmonds: Oriskany: 1777
- Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.: The Marines At Soissons
- Frank Richards: The Battle Of Ypres
War is Fought by Human Beings
- Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
- The Bible: Joshua’s Conquest Of Jericho
- Rudyard Kipling: The Taking Of Lungtungpen
- Guy De Maupassant: Ball-Of-Fat
- Alexander Woollcott: Hands Across The Sea
- The Captain Of A Blenheim Bomber: I Bombed The Barges
- F. G. Tinker, Jr.: The Italian Debacle At Guadalajara
- Stefan Zweig: Buchmendel
- Frazier Hunt: I Take Vladivostok
- An Officer Of H. M. Submarine Sturgeon: Up Periscope!
- Alexander Woollcott: Father Duffy
- James Hilton: The War Years
- Dorothy Parker: Soldiers Of The Republic
- Ernest Hemingway: The Chauffeurs Of Madrid
- Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.: A Man's Bound To Fight
- Byron Kennerly: Squadron Scramble!
- Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.: A Name and a Flag
- Stendhal: A Personal View Of Waterloo
- Richard Hillary: Falling Through Space
- Blake Clark: Pearl Harbor
- Harold F. Dixon: Three Men on a Raft
- Walter B. Clausen: Midway
Publisher’s Foreword to the New Complete Edition:
This book, so cherished by the G.I.’s of World War II, was permitted to go out of print in 1946. The war was over, wasn’t it? Who cared about men at war?
But soon it became apparent that the war wasn’t really over and orders came in increasingly for Men at War. During the cold war, these orders did not seen enough to warrant a new edition, but when the Korean war began, the demand for Men at War mounted and we arranged for a paper-book edition, containing about one-third of the material in the complete book. Perhaps the paper edition whetted readers’ appetites or perhaps Americans are becoming more and more interested in the ways of men at war. For the demand kept growing for the “complete book” — and so this new 1,100-page edition, containing Hemingway’s introduction as it was written in 1942, complete except for a few topical references, and the entire contents of the original edition.
New York, N. Y.
March, 1955
Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time. Abridged ed. 1966. Fontana Books. London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1969.
Table of Contents
- Ernest Hemingway: Introduction
War is Part of the Intercourse of the Human Race
- Charles Oman: The Battle of Hastings
- Winston Churchill: The Cavalry Charge at Omdurman
- Richard Hillary: The Invaders
- Count Leo Tolstoy: The People’s War
War is the Province of Danger, and therefore Courage
above All Things is the First Quality of a Warrior
- Livy: Horatius at the Bridge
- Ernest Hemingway: The Fight on the Hilltop
- Richard Aldington: At All Costs
- Charlotte Yonge: The Pass of Thermopylae
War is the Province of Uncertainty
- Leonard Ehrlich: Harper’s Ferry
- C. S. Forester: An Egg for the Major
- Alan Moorehead: Tank Fighting in Libya
- T. E. Lawrence: Blowing up a Train
War is the Province of Chance
- Marquis James: The Stolen Railroad Train
- William Faulkner: Turn About
- Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall: Air Battle
- Arthur D. Divine: Miracle at Dunkirk
War is the Province of Friction
- Virgil: The Trojan Horse
- Ernest Hemingway: The Retreat from Caporetto
War Demands Resolution, Firmness, and Staunchness
- Private 19022: Her Privates We
- General Marbot: Lisette At Eylau
- Robert Southey: Trafalgar
- Frank Richards: The Battle Of Ypres
War is Fought by Human Beings
- Rudyard Kipling: The Taking Of Lungtungpen
- Byron Kennerly: Squadron Scramble!
- Stendhal: A Personal View Of Waterloo
- Richard Hillary: Falling Through Space
- George Macy, ed. A Soldier's Reader: A Volume Containing Four Hundred Thousand Words of Select Literary Entertainment for the American Soldier on the Ground or in the Air. New York: The Heritage Press, 1943.
Dustjacket Blurb:
400,000 words of literary entertainment for the fighting man: 9 full-length books, long stories & novelettes, 12 short stories, 15 essays & general features, over 250 great poems: put together with the desire to meet the soldier’s varying moods, by George Macy for the Heritage Press.
Table of Contents
- George Macey: The Editor Sticks His Neck Out [i.e. Preface]
Books & Long Stories
- William Gilmore Simms: Those Old Lunes! or, Which is the Madman?
- Gustave Flaubert: Beneath the Walls of Carthage
- H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds
- Guy de Maupassant: Madame Tellier's Establishment
- Charles C. Finney: The Amorous Duck
- Ivan Turgenev: A Visit to the Folks
- Fitz-James O'Brien: The Diamond Lens
- Edward Everett Hale: The Man Without a Country
- Elmer Davis: The Man Who Killed Goliath
Short Stories
- John Cheever: Sergeant Limeburner
- Jack London: For the Love of a Man
- O. Henry: The Gift of the Magi
- Damon Runyon: Undertaker Song
- Aldous Huxley: Little Sir Hercules
- Sinclair Lewis: A Letter from the Queen
- René Maran: An African Day
- Ring W. Lardner: Alibi Ike
- John Collier: Rope Enough
- James Thurber: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- W. Somerset Maugham: Doctor Abraham
General Features
- Alexander Woollcott: Hands Across the Sea
- Alvah C. Bessie: The Amateur in Spain
- Thomas De Quincey: The Revolt of the Tartars
- Parson Weems: George W. and the Cherry Tree
- Thomas Carlyle: What Makes a Man Unhappy
- Clifton Fadiman: The Rover Boys in Russia; or, It Happened to Adolf, Too
- Paul de Kruif: The Magic Bullet
- André Maurois: Three Letters on the English
- Winston Churchill: If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg
- Walt Whitman: Memories of Abraham Lincoln:
- The Death of the President, A Speech
- 'When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloomed'
- Lord John Russell: What Liberty Is
- T. E. Lawrence: Torture
- Carl Van Doren: The Electrician
- William Hazlitt: On the Fear of Death
- Walt Whitman: The United States are Essentially the Greatest Poem
Poetry
- Poems in Praise of the Ladies and the Soft Emotions They Inspire
- Poems in Praise of God, Country, Home and Nature
- Poems in Praise of Friends Living and Dead
- Poems in Praise of Battle, Courage and the Manly Virtues
- Poems in Praise of a Man’s Dreams and Similar Melancholia
- Samuel Hoffenstein: Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing
George Macy, ed. A Sailor's Reader: A Volume Containing Four Hundred Thousand Words of Select Literary Entertainment for the American Sailor on the Water or in the Air. New York: The Heritage Press, 1943.
George Macy Imagery:
The reader for sailors, more properly A Sailor’s Christmas Reader is bound in blue buckram and the page ends dyed navy blue. It is almost identical, but Melville’s great “Benito Cereno” has replaced the Flaubert excerpt, and certain other nautical items are unique to this volume: “The Trial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers,” Jack London’s “The Seed of McCoy,” and “Rendezvous,” a submarine story by US Naval officer Alec Hudson “set in the present conflict.”
- A. P. Wavell, ed. Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry Compiled by Field-Marshall Earl Wavell. 1944. Memorial Edition with an Introduction by His Son. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Publisher's Note:
First published in 1944, during the darkest days of the war, Lord Wavell's great anthology of English poetry - enhanced by his own introduction and annotations - encouraged and delighted many thousands of readers.It has remained in print every since, proving beyond doubt that, whatever the fashion of the day, poetry can fulfil its ancient function, finding its way to the hearts of the many, not only to the minds of the few.
Table of Contents
1. Music, Mystery and Magic
- 'The Hound Of Heaven' - Francis Thompson
- 'Sweet Content' - Thomas Dekker
- 'Kubla Khan' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 'The Tiger' - William Blake
- 'Dream-Pedlary' - Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- 'Ode To A Nightingale' - John Keats
- From The Night Of Forebeing - Francis Thompson
- 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner' — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 'Guests' - Anon
- 'The Pulley' - George Herbert
- 'The Key Of The Kingdom' - Anon
- 'Jerusalem' - William Blake
- 'Hymn On The Morning Of Christ’s Nativity' - John Milton
- 'The Music-Makers' - Arthur O'Shaughnessy
- 'Tom O’Bedlam’s Song' - Anon
- 'Strength' - Christopher Smart
- 'Leisure' - W. H. Davies
- 'Weathers' - Thomas Hardy
- 'March' — William Morris
- 'Home-Thoughts, From Abroad' — Robert Browning
- 'Sonnet xxxiii' — William Shakespeare
- 'Courtesy' - Hilaire Belloc
- 'A Charm' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Fairies’ Farewell' - Richard Corbet
- 'The Hundredth Psalm'
- The Earthly Paradise (Prologue) - William Morris
- 'Uphill' - Christina Rossetti
- 'Eve' - Ralph Hodgson
- ['All That’s Past' – Walter de la Mare
- 'Vain Questioning' – Walter de la Mare
- 'Cities and Thrones and Powers' – Rudyard Kipling]
2. Good Fighting
- 'Into Battle' - Julian Grenfell
- 'Magpies In Picardy' - T. P. Cameron Wilson
- 'Rendezvous' — Alan Seeger
- 'The Pilgrim' - John Bunyan
- 'Invictus' - W . E. Henley
- 'Boxing' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Battle Hymn of the American Republic' - Julia Ward Howe
- 'Lepanto' - G. K. Chesterton
- 'London Under Bombardment' - Greta Briggs
- 'A St. Helena Lullaby' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Napoleon' - Walter de la Mare
- 'The Reveille' - Bret Harte
- 'The Last Hero' - G. K. Chesterton
- 'A Consecration' - John Masefield
- 'Say Not The Struggle' - Arthur Hugh Clough
- 'To-morrow' - John Masefield
- 'The Eve Of Waterloo' - Lord Byron
- 'And Shall Trelawny Die?' - R. S. Hawker
- 'The Fight At The Bridge' - Lord Macaulay
- 'The Fight In The Centre' - Lord Macaulay
- 'The Death Of Herminius' - Lord Macaulay
- 'England’s Standard' - Lord Macaulay
- 'The Red Thread Of Honour' - Sir Francis Hastings Doyle
- 'The War Song Of Dinas Vawr' - Thomas Love Peacock
- 'The Chronicle Of The Drum' - William Makepeace Thackeray
- 'War Song Of The Saracens' - James Elroy Flecker
- 'Hervé Riel' - Robert Browning
- 'Drake’s Drum' - Sir Henry Newbolt
- 'The Fairies’ Siege' - Rudyard Kipling
- Leaders:
- 'Old Style' - Sir Walter Scott
- 'New Style' - Siegfried Sassoon
- 'The Staff Officer' - William Shakespeare
- ['The English War' – Dorothy L. Sayers
- 'The Battle of Naseby' – Lord Macaulay
- 'Hic jacet Arthurus' – Francis Brett Young
- 'Atlantic Charter' – Francis Brett Young]
3. Love and All That
- 'O Mistress Mine' - William Shakespeare
- 'A Red, Red Rose' - Robert Burns
- 'To His Coy Mistress' - Andrew Marvell
- 'Rudel To The Lady Of Tripoli' - Robert Browning
- 'Arab Love-Song' - Francis Thompson
- 'We’ll Go No More A-Roving' - Lord Byron
- 'The Bargain' - Sir Philip Sidney
- 'One Word More' - Robert Browning
- 'Cynara' - Ernest Dowson
- 'The Banks o’ Doon' - Robert Burns
- 'The Longest Journey' - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 'Kiss’d Yestreen' - Anon
- 'Any Wife to Any Husband' - Robert Browning
- 'Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad' - Robert Burns
- 'Sonnet cxxix' - William Shakespeare
- 'The Praise Of Dust' - G. K. Chesterton
- 'To Helen' - Edgar Allan Poe
- 'The Strange Music' - G. K. Chesterton
- 'When I Was One-And-Twenty' - A. E. Housman
- 'Romance' - Robert Louis Stevenson
- 'Lochinvar' - Sir Walter Scott
- 'The Love Song Of Har Dyal' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Me Heart' - G. K. Chesterton
- 'Sonnet cxxx' - William Shakespeare
- 'Sir Richard’s Song' — Rudyard Kipling
- 'One Way Of Love' — Robert Browning
- 'Why So Pale And Wan?' — Sir John Suckling
- 'Love’s Secret' - William Blake
- 'The Clod and the Pebble' - William Blake
- 'The Parting' - Michael Drayton
- 'When You are Old' - W. B. Yeats
- 'John Anderson, My Jo' - Robert Burns
- 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' - John Keats
- 'Annabel Lee' - Edgar Allan Poe
- ['Tam i’ the Kirk' – Violet Jacob
- 'Love' – George Herbert
- 'Parting at Dawn' – Anon
- 'The Cap and Bells' – W. B. Yeats]
4. The Call Of The Wild
- 'Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Song Of Honour' - Ralph Hodgson
- 'Saul' - Robert Browning
- 'The Song Of Diego Valdez' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came' – Robert Browning
- 'The Listeners' - Walter de la Mare
- 'Gipsy Vans' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Old Ships' - James Elroy Flecker
- 'Harp Song Of The Dane Women' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Waring' - Robert Browning
- 'Cargoes' - John Masefield
- 'The Sea And The Hills' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Sea Fever' - John Masefield
- 'Sir Patrick Spens' - Anon
- 'The Long Trail' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Tarantella' - Hilaire Belloc
- 'Could Man Be Drunk For Ever' - A. E. Housman
- 'The Feet of the Young Men' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Last Chantey' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Wishing-Caps' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Death and Last Confession of Wandering Peter' - Hilaire Belloc
- From Hassan - James Elroy Flecker
- 'Three Fishers Went Sailing' - Charles Kingsley
- 'The Song Of The Banjo' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Outlaw' - Sir Walter Scott
- 'The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies' – Anon
- 'Vagabond' - John Masefield
- 'A Jacobite’s Exile' - Algernon Charles Swinburne
- 'London Town' - John Masefield
- 'The Odyssey' - Andrew Lang
- 'The Risks Of The Game' - Adam Lindsay Gordon
- 'How We Beat The Favourite' - Adam Lindsay Gordon
- Reynard the Fox (Extracts) - John Masefield
- Right Royal (Extract) - John Masefield
- 'To A Black Greyhound' - Julian Grenfell
5. Conversation Pieces
- 'Bishop Blougram’s Apology' - Robert Browning
- 'True Thomas' - Anon
- 'The Last Rhyme of True Thomas' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Mary Gloster' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Bishop Orders His Tomb' - Robert Browning
- 'M’Andrew’s Hymn' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Fra Lippo Lippi' - Robert Browning
- 'Tomlinson' (extracts) - Rudyard Kipling
- 'A Toccata Of Galuppi’s' - Robert Browning
- 'Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam' - Edward Fitzgerald
- 'The Ballad Of Reading Gaol'- Oscar Wilde
- 'My Last Duchess' — Robert Browning
- 'The Secret People' - G. K. Chesterton
- 'The High Tide On The Coast Of Lincolnshire' – Jean Ingelow
- 'If' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Mending Wall' - Robert Frost
- 'The Female Of The Species' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Lucy Ashton’s Song' - Sir Walter Scott
6. The Lighter Side
- 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' - Robert Browning
- 'The Lay of St. Cuthbert' - R. H. Barham
- 'The Rolling English Road' - G. K. Chesterton
- 'When ’Omer Smote ’Is Bloomin’ Lyre' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Jumblies' - Edward Lear
- 'Love, Drink, and Debt' - Alexander Brome
- 'The Boon Companion' - Oliver St. John Gogarty
- 'Drinking' - Abraham Cowley
- 'Birds, Bags, Bears, and Buns' - Anon
- 'The Motor Bus' - A. D. Godley
- 'The King Of Brentford' - William Makepeace Thackeray
- 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat' - Edward Lear
- 'The Song of Right And Wrong' - G. K. Chesterton
- 'In Praise of Young Girls' - Raymond Asquith
- 'To R. K.' — J. K. Stephen
- 'The Massacre Of The Macpherson' - W. E. Aytoun
- 'Poor But Honest' - Anon
- 'Common Sense' - Harry Graham
- The Modern Traveller (Extract) - Hilaire Belloc
- 'Muckle-Mouth Meg' — Robert Browning
7. Hymns Of Hate
- 'Auguries of Innocence' - William Blake
- 'The Bells of Heaven' - Ralph Hodgson
- 'Never Get Out' - John Galsworthy
- 'A Hymn of Hate Against England' - Ernst Lissauer
- 'The Confessional' - Robert Browning
- 'The Latest Decalogue' - Arthur Hugh Clough
- 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister' - Robert Browning
- 'A Poison Tree' - William Blake
- 'The Lost Leader' - Robert Browning
- 'Gehazi' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Holy-Cross Day' - Robert Browning
- 'Lines to a Don' - Hilaire Belloc
- 'Naaman’s Song' - Rudyard Kipling
8. Ragbag
- 'Kilmeny' - James Hogg
- 'Scotland Yet' - Anon
- 'Faith' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 'Questions' - C. B. T.
- 'Elizabeth of Bohemia' - Sir Henry Wotton
- 'Strong Love' - A. E. Housman
- 'Wisdom?' - Laurence Hope
- 'The Chase and the Race' - Adam Lindsay Gordon
- 'Man’s Testament' - Adam Lindsay Gordon
- 'The Little Men' - William Allingham
- 'The East A-Callin’' - Oscar Wilde
- 'The Golden Road' - James Elroy Flecker
- 'Fey' - Anon
- 'Challenge' - Sir Walter Scott
- 'Marmion and Douglas' - Sir Walter Scott
- 'The East' - Matthew Arnold
- Alexander’s Feast (Extract) - John Dryden
- 'The Birkenhead' - Sir Henry Yule
- 'Swan Song - Algernon Charles Swinburne
- 'Courage' - John Galsworthy
- The White Cliffs (Extract) - Alice Duer Miller
- 'My Candle' - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 'The Tokens' - Francis Thompson
- 'Carpe Diem' - Laurence Hope
- 'Litany' - G. K. Chesterton
- 'Who Goes Home?' - G. K. Chesterton
- 'England' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Greece' - Robert Browning
- 'The Judgment of Paris' - Anon
- 'The Wide, Wide World' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'Greatness' - Thomas Love Peacock
- 'Dodoism' - W. J. Courthope
- 'One-and-Twenty' - Samuel Johnson
- 'Jacobite Toast' - John Byrom
- 'Farmers' - Anon
- 'Maxim' - Rudyard Kipling
- Epigrams:
- i - Sir John Harrington
- ii - Hilaire Belloc
- iii - W. N. Ewer
- iv - Richard Garnett
- 'The Sick Stockrider' - Adam Lindsay Gordon
- 'The Touch' - James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
- 'Grace' - Robert Herrick
- 'Wildness' - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- 'Blondie Goes To Heaven' – Anon
- ['The Kye-Song of St Bride' – Fiona Macleod
- 'The Brave' – G. K. Chesterton
- 'Too Late' – Christina Rossetti
- 'Spring' – Ralph Waldo Emerson]
9. Last Post
- 'The Soldier’s Death' — Anne Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea
- 'The Dead' - Rupert Brooke
- 'The Volunteer' - Herbert Asquith
- 'Here Dead Lie We' - A. E. Housman
- 'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries' - A. E. Housman
- 'In Flanders Fields' - John Mccrae
- 'My Boy Jack' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' - W. B. Yeats
- 'Macpherson’s Farewell' - Robert Burns
- 'Death The Leveller' - James Shirley
- 'An Epitaph' - Stephen Hawes
- 'The Conclusion' - Sir Walter Raleigh
- 'A Lyke-Wake Dirge' - Anon
- 'In Time Of Pestilence' - Thomas Nashe
- 'Messages' - Francis Thompson
- Requiems:
- i - Christina Rossetti
- ii - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Gravestones:
- i - George Macdonald
- ii - John Cleveland
- iii - Anon
- 'To Death' - Oliver St. John Gogarty
- 'How Sleep the Brave' - William Collins
- 'Fratri Dilectissimo' - John Buchan
- ['Afterwards' – Thomas Hardy
- 'Nothing for Tears' – John Milton
- 'Heraclitus' – William Cory]
Outside The Gate
- 'Sonnet for the Madonna of the Cherries' — A. P. Wavell
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Books:
- The Palestine Campaigns (1933)
- Allenby, A Study in Greatness: The Biography of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. (1940–43)
- Generals and Generalship: The Lees Knowles Lectures Delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1939 (1941)
- Soldiers and Soldiering or Epithets of War (1953)
- Allenby, Soldier and Statesman (1946)
- Speaking Generally: broadcasts, Orders and Addresses in Time of War (1939–43) (1946)
- The Good Soldier (1948)
- Wavell: The Viceroy's Journal (1973)
- Andrei Georgievich Elchaninov. Tsar Nicholas II (1913)
- Andrei Georgievich Elchaninov. The Tsar and his People (1914)
- Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry (1944)
- Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry (Memorial ed.) (1952)
- Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry Compiled by Field-Marshall Earl Wavell. 1944. Memorial Edition with an Introduction by His Son. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Edited & Translated:
- Paul Fussell, ed. The Bloody Game: An Anthology of Modern War. [aka 'The Norton Book of Modern War', 1990]. A Scribners Book. London: Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd., 1991.
Publisher's Note:
In sections ranging from fiction to poems, to simple letters home, this book presents the voices of this century's major conflicts: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Contributors include Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Norman Mailer and Michael Herr.
Table of Contents
- Paul Fussell: Introduction: On Modern War
I - The First World War
'Never Such Innocence Again'
- Rupert Brooke: 'Peace'
- Philip Larkin: 'MCMXIV'
- A. E. Housman: 'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'
- Hugh MacDiarmid: 'Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'
- R. A. Scott MacFie: To His Father
- Katharine Tynan: 'Flower of Youth'
- W. N. Hodgson: 'Before Action'
- Daniel J. Sweeney: To Ivy Williams
- Siegfried Sassoon:
- From Diaries
- 'Blighters'
- 'How To Die'
- 'The General'
- 'Lamentations'
- 'Glory of Women'
- David Jones: From In Parenthesis
- Ivor Gurney:
- 'The Silent One'
- 'The Bohemians'
- British Soldiers’ Songs:
- 'The Reason Why'
- 'For You But Not for Me (The Bells of Hell)'
- 'The Old Battalion'
- Wilfrid Gibson:
- 'In the Ambulance'
- 'Back'
- Isaac Rosenberg: 'Break of Day in the Trenches'
- Herbert Read: 'The Happy Warrior'
- Robert Graves: From Goodbye to All That
- Frank Richards: From Old Soldiers Never Die
- Erich Maria Remarque: From All Quiet on the Western Front (Trans. A. W. Wheen)'
- Edmund Blunden:
- 'Concert Party: Busseboom'
- 'Pillbox'
- 'Third Ypres'
- Edward Thomas:
- 'In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)'
- 'This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong'
- 'A Private'
- Eric Hiscock: From The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling
- Wilfred Owen:
- 'Insensibility'
- 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
- 'Dulce et Decorum est'
- 'Futility'
- 'The Send-Off'
- Robert C. Hoffman: From I Remember the Last War
- James Milne: To His Wife
- Vera Brittain: From Testament of Youth
- Rudyard Kipling: From Epitaphs of the War
- Ivor Gurney:
- 'Strange Hells'
- 'War Books'
- Philip Johnstone: 'High Wood'
- Siegfried Sassoon: 'Aftermath: March 1919'
- Ezra Pound: From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)
- E. E. Cummings:
- 'i sing of Olaf glad and big'
- 'my sweet old etcetera'
- '“next to of course god america I”'
- Vernon Scannell: 'The Great War'
II - The Spanish Civil War
'Authors Take Sides'
- Luis Buñuel: From My Last Sigh (Trans. Abigail Israel)
- F. G. Tinker: From Some Still Live
- John Dos Passos: Room and Bath at the Hotel Florida
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: From Wind, Sand, and Stars (Trans. Lewis Galantiere)
- George Orwell: From Homage to Catalonia
- Ernest Hemingway: From For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Stephen Spender:
- 'Two Armies'
- 'Ultima Ratio Regum'
III - The Second World War
'Almost Beyond Human Conception'
- Herbert Read: ‘To a Conscript of 1940’
- Alun Lewis: “All Day It Has Rained’
- Henry Reed: Lessons of the War
- John Pudney:
- ‘For Johnny’
- ‘Missing’
- Gavin Ewart:
- ‘When a Beau Goes In’
- ‘Incident, Second World War’
- James Jones:
- From The Thin Red Line
- From WWII
- Dudley Randall: From Pacific Epitaphs
- Norman Mailer: From The Naked and the Dead
- Keith Douglas:
- From Alamein to Zem Zem
- ‘Vergissmeinicht’
- Guy Sajer: From The Forgotten Soldier (Trans. Lily Emmet)
- William Ellison: To Elizabeth
- Max Hastings: From Bomber Command
- Randall Jarrell:
- ‘Eighth Air Force’
- ‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’
- ‘Losses’
- Barry Broadfoot: From Six War Years, 1939-1945: Memories of Canadians at Home and Abroad
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy: To His Parents
- Harold L. Bond: From Return to Cassino: A Memoir of the Fight for Rome
- John M. Bennett: To His Father
- Charles A. Lindbergh: From Wartime Journals
- Martha Gellhorn: From The Face of War
- William Preston:
- To His Father
- To Phyll
- Rudolf Höss: From Commandant of Auschwitz (Trans. Constantine FitzGibbon)
- Marguerite Duras: From The War (Trans. Barbara Bray)
- Louis Simpson:
- ‘Carentan O Carentan’
- ‘On the Ledge’
- ‘The Battle’
- Richard Eberhart: ‘The Fury of Aerial Bombardment’
- Norman Lewis: From Naples ’44
- Ivor Rowbery: To His Mother
- Eugene B. Sledge: From With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
- Kermit Stewart:
- To His Parents
- To Guy
- John Guest: From Broken Images
- James Robeson: To His Parents
- Studs Terkel: From “The Good War”
- Harry Towne: To His Mother
- James J. Fahey: From Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945
- Mitchell Sharpe: To His Mother
- Donald Bain: ‘War Poet’
- Heinrich Böll: A Letter to My Sons: War’s End (Trans. Michael Hofmann)
- Howard Nemerov: ‘Redeployment’
- Vernon Scannell: ‘Walking Wounded’
- Willie Morris: From James Jones: A Friendship
IV - The Wars in Asia
'Obscenity without Victory'
- Marguerite Higgins: From War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent
- Jean Larteguy: From The Face of War: Reflections on Men and Combat (Trans. Beth de Bilio)
- Brian Alec Floyd: 'Lance Coporal Purdue Grace, U. S. M. C.'
- Bernard Edelman: From Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
- Seymour M. Hersh: From My Lai 4
- Gloria Emerson: From Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and Ruins from the Vietnam War
- John Ketwig: From And a Hard Rain Fell
- Ron Kovic: From Born on the Fourth of July
- Tim O'Brien: From If I Die in a Combat Zone
- Michael Herr: From Dispatches
- Keith Walker: From A Piece of My Heart
- Truong Nhu Tang: From A Viet Cong Memoir (with David Chanoff & Doan Van Toai)
- Bruce Weigl: 'Mines'
- Hayden Carruth: 'On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam'
V - Afterwords
- Willie Morris: From James Jones: A Friendship
- Paul Dehn: 'Armistice'
- Harrison E. Salisbury: From A Journey for Our Times
- Douglas MacArthur: From Address to the Corps of Cadets, West Point, May 12, 1962
- Peter Porter: ‘Your Attention Please’
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Books:
- Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England (1954 / rev. 1966)
- Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965)
- The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke (1965)
- Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)
- English Augustan Poetry (1972)
- The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
- The Great War and Modern Memory. 1975. Oxford Paperbacks, 385. London: Oxford University Press, 1977.
- Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980)
- Abroad: British Literary Travelling between the Wars. 1980. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
- The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations (1982)
- Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)
- Caste Marks: Style and Status in the USA (1984. – this is the UK edition of Class)
- Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)
- Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989)
- BAD – Or, The Dumbing of America (1991)
- The Anti-Egotist. Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters (1994)
- Doing Battle – The Making of a Skeptic (1996)
- Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear (2002)
- The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945 (2003)
- [with Geoffrey Tillotson & Marshall Waingrow] Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1969)
- The Ordeal of Alfred M. Hale: The Memoirs of a Soldier Servant (1975)
- Sassoon's Long Journey: from The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (1983)
- Sassoon's Long Journey: An Illustrated Selection from Siegfried Sassoon's The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston. 1928, 1930, 1936, 1937. A Giniger Book Published in association with Faber & Faber. London: Faber / New York: K. S. Giniger Co. Inc., 1983.
- The Norton Book of Travel (1987)
- The Norton Book of Travel. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987.
- The Norton Book of Modern War [aka 'The Bloody Game: An Anthology of Modern War', 1991] (1990)
- The Bloody Game: An Anthology of Modern War. [aka 'The Norton Book of Modern War', 1990]. A Scribners Book. London: Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd., 1991.
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