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Acquisitions (119): Ernest Hemingway


Ernest Hemingway, ed. Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time. 1942. Bramhall House. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1979.

Sam Wood, dir.: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)





World War II Anthologies



Ernest Hemingway: Men Without Women (1927)


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.


Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms (1929)


"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.


Ernest Hemingway, ed.: Men at War (1942)


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.


Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)





The Pacific: Joseph Mazzello as Eugene Sledge (2010)

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.
- Goodreads: 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.

Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg et al., prod.: The Pacific (2010)


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).


Terrence Malick, dir.: The Thin Red Line (1998)


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.


Clint Eastwood, dir.: Flags of Our Fathers / Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)





George Macy, ed.: A Soldier's Reader (1943)
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 (1943)
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 (1945)
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 (1960)
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 (1990)
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).


Paul Fussell: 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:
  1. The First World War
  2. The Spanish Civil War
  3. The Second World War
  4. The Wars in Asia
  5. Afterwords
I have to say that I often find it interesting to read the comments readers leave about books like this on sites such as Amazon.com. Here are some examples:
[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.

[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'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.

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.


Paul Fussell (1924-2012)




War Anthologies (1942-1991):
  1. Ernest Hemingway: Men at War (1942)
  2. George Macy: A Soldier's Reader (1943)
  3. A. P. Wavell: Other Men's Flowers (1944)
  4. Paul Fussell: The Bloody Game (1991)

Books I own are marked in bold:




Ernest Hemingway, ed.: Men at War (1979)

Ernest Hemingway, ed.

Men at War
(1942)

  • 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

  1. Ernest Hemingway: Introduction

  2. War is Part of the Intercourse of the Human Race

  3. Julius Caesar: The Invasion of Britain
  4. Charles Oman: The Battle of Hastings
  5. Jean de Joinville: The French Crusade, 1249-1250 A.D.
  6. Charles Oman: The Battle of Arsouf
  7. William Hickling Prescott: The Death Of Montezuma
  8. Eric Jens Petersen: Who Called You Here?
  9. Richard Hillary: The Invaders
  10. Pedro Menéndez De Avilés: The Massacre at Matanzas Inlet

  11. War is the Province of Danger, and therefore Courage
    above All Things is the First Quality of a Warrior


  12. Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
  13. Sir Archibald Hurd: The Blocking of Zeebrugge
  14. Livy: Horatius at the Bridge
  15. Lloyd Lewis: Shiloh, Bloody Shiloh!
  16. The Bible How David Slew Goliath
  17. Ernest Hemingway: The Fight on the Hilltop
  18. Sir Thomas Malory: The Last Battle of King Arthur
  19. Richard Aldington: At All Costs
  20. Charlotte Yonge: The Pass of Thermopylae
  21. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt: The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon
  22. Marquis James: Deguelo

  23. War is the Province of Physical Exertion and Suffering

  24. T. E. Lawrence: Torture
  25. Frank Thiess: Tsushima
  26. Alden Brooks: The Parisian
  27. Xenophon: The March to the Sea
  28. Laurence Stallings: Vale of Tears
  29. Alden Brooks: The Odyssey of Three Slavs

  30. War is the Province of Uncertainty

  31. C. S. Forester: Gold from Crete
  32. Leonard Ehrlich: Harper’s Ferry
  33. Frederic F. Van de Water: Custer
  34. C. S. Forester: An Egg for the Major
  35. Mary Johnston: The Merrimac and the Monitor
  36. Admiral George Dewey: Manila Bay
  37. Alan Moorehead: Tank Fighting in Libya
  38. T. E. Lawrence: Blowing up a Train

  39. War is the Province of Chance

  40. General Marbot: Lisette At Eylau
  41. Marquis James: The Stolen Railroad Train
  42. William Faulkner: Turn About
  43. Virgil: The Trojan Horse
  44. Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall: Air Battle
  45. Count Leo Tolstoy: The People’s War
  46. Marquis James: The Wrong Road
  47. Victor Hugo: The Corvette Claymore
  48. Arthur D. Divine: Miracle at Dunkirk

  49. War is the Province of Friction

  50. Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller: Gallipoli
  51. Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.: The Stars in Their Courses
  52. Victor Hugo: Waterloo
  53. Ernest Hemingway: The Retreat from Caporetto
  54. Livy: The Battle Of Cannae
  55. Sir Edward S. Creasy: The Victory of the Americans at Saratoga
  56. Thomas M. Johnson & Fletcher Pratt: The Lost Battalion

  57. War Demands Resolution, Firmness, and Staunchness

  58. Count Leo Tolstoy: Bagration’s Rearguard Action
  59. Agnes Smedley: After the Final Victory
  60. Private 19022: Her Privates We
  61. Count Leo Tolstoy: Borodino
  62. Robert Southey: Trafalgar
  63. Lloyd Lewis: The Battle of Atlanta
  64. Winston Churchill: The Cavalry Charge at Omdurman
  65. General Marbot: The Sun of Austerlitz
  66. Walter D. Edmonds: Oriskany: 1777
  67. Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.: The Marines At Soissons
  68. Frank Richards: The Battle Of Ypres

  69. War is Fought by Human Beings

  70. Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
  71. The Bible: Joshua’s Conquest Of Jericho
  72. Rudyard Kipling: The Taking Of Lungtungpen
  73. Guy De Maupassant: Ball-Of-Fat
  74. Alexander Woollcott: Hands Across The Sea
  75. The Captain Of A Blenheim Bomber: I Bombed The Barges
  76. F. G. Tinker, Jr.: The Italian Debacle At Guadalajara
  77. Stefan Zweig: Buchmendel
  78. Frazier Hunt: I Take Vladivostok
  79. An Officer Of H. M. Submarine Sturgeon: Up Periscope!
  80. Alexander Woollcott: Father Duffy
  81. James Hilton: The War Years
  82. Dorothy Parker: Soldiers Of The Republic
  83. Ernest Hemingway: The Chauffeurs Of Madrid
  84. Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.: A Man's Bound To Fight
  85. Byron Kennerly: Squadron Scramble!
  86. Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.: A Name and a Flag
  87. Stendhal: A Personal View Of Waterloo
  88. Richard Hillary: Falling Through Space
  89. Blake Clark: Pearl Harbor
  90. Harold F. Dixon: Three Men on a Raft
  91. 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


Ernest Hemingway, ed.: Men at War (1942 / 1960)


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

  1. Ernest Hemingway: Introduction

  2. War is Part of the Intercourse of the Human Race

  3. Charles Oman: The Battle of Hastings
  4. Winston Churchill: The Cavalry Charge at Omdurman
  5. Richard Hillary: The Invaders
  6. Count Leo Tolstoy: The People’s War

  7. War is the Province of Danger, and therefore Courage
    above All Things is the First Quality of a Warrior


  8. Livy: Horatius at the Bridge
  9. Ernest Hemingway: The Fight on the Hilltop
  10. Richard Aldington: At All Costs
  11. Charlotte Yonge: The Pass of Thermopylae

  12. War is the Province of Uncertainty

  13. Leonard Ehrlich: Harper’s Ferry
  14. C. S. Forester: An Egg for the Major
  15. Alan Moorehead: Tank Fighting in Libya
  16. T. E. Lawrence: Blowing up a Train

  17. War is the Province of Chance

  18. Marquis James: The Stolen Railroad Train
  19. William Faulkner: Turn About
  20. Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall: Air Battle
  21. Arthur D. Divine: Miracle at Dunkirk

  22. War is the Province of Friction

  23. Virgil: The Trojan Horse
  24. Ernest Hemingway: The Retreat from Caporetto

  25. War Demands Resolution, Firmness, and Staunchness

  26. Private 19022: Her Privates We
  27. General Marbot: Lisette At Eylau
  28. Robert Southey: Trafalgar
  29. Frank Richards: The Battle Of Ypres

  30. War is Fought by Human Beings

  31. Rudyard Kipling: The Taking Of Lungtungpen
  32. Byron Kennerly: Squadron Scramble!
  33. Stendhal: A Personal View Of Waterloo
  34. Richard Hillary: Falling Through Space






George Macy, ed.: A Soldier's Reader (1943)

George Macy, ed.

A Soldier's Reader
(1943)

  • 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

  1. George Macey: The Editor Sticks His Neck Out [i.e. Preface]

  2. Books & Long Stories

  3. William Gilmore Simms: Those Old Lunes! or, Which is the Madman?
  4. Gustave Flaubert: Beneath the Walls of Carthage
  5. H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds
  6. Guy de Maupassant: Madame Tellier's Establishment
  7. Charles C. Finney: The Amorous Duck
  8. Ivan Turgenev: A Visit to the Folks
  9. Fitz-James O'Brien: The Diamond Lens
  10. Edward Everett Hale: The Man Without a Country
  11. Elmer Davis: The Man Who Killed Goliath

  12. Short Stories

  13. John Cheever: Sergeant Limeburner
  14. Jack London: For the Love of a Man
  15. O. Henry: The Gift of the Magi
  16. Damon Runyon: Undertaker Song
  17. Aldous Huxley: Little Sir Hercules
  18. Sinclair Lewis: A Letter from the Queen
  19. René Maran: An African Day
  20. Ring W. Lardner: Alibi Ike
  21. John Collier: Rope Enough
  22. James Thurber: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  23. W. Somerset Maugham: Doctor Abraham

  24. General Features

  25. Alexander Woollcott: Hands Across the Sea
  26. Alvah C. Bessie: The Amateur in Spain
  27. Thomas De Quincey: The Revolt of the Tartars
  28. Parson Weems: George W. and the Cherry Tree
  29. Thomas Carlyle: What Makes a Man Unhappy
  30. Clifton Fadiman: The Rover Boys in Russia; or, It Happened to Adolf, Too
  31. Paul de Kruif: The Magic Bullet
  32. André Maurois: Three Letters on the English
  33. Winston Churchill: If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg
  34. Walt Whitman: Memories of Abraham Lincoln:
    1. The Death of the President, A Speech
    2. 'When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloomed'
  35. Lord John Russell: What Liberty Is
  36. T. E. Lawrence: Torture
  37. Carl Van Doren: The Electrician
  38. William Hazlitt: On the Fear of Death
  39. Walt Whitman: The United States are Essentially the Greatest Poem

  40. Poetry

  41. Poems in Praise of the Ladies and the Soft Emotions They Inspire
  42. Poems in Praise of God, Country, Home and Nature
  43. Poems in Praise of Friends Living and Dead
  44. Poems in Praise of Battle, Courage and the Manly Virtues
  45. Poems in Praise of a Man’s Dreams and Similar Melancholia
  46. Samuel Hoffenstein: Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing

George Macy, ed.: A Sailor's Reader (1943)
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.”


George Macy (1900-1956)





A. P. Wavell, ed.: Other Men's Flowers (1944 / 1952)

A. P. Wavell, ed.

Other Men's Flowers
(1944)

  • 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

  1. 'The Hound Of Heaven' - Francis Thompson
  2. 'Sweet Content' - Thomas Dekker
  3. 'Kubla Khan' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  4. 'The Tiger' - William Blake
  5. 'Dream-Pedlary' - Thomas Lovell Beddoes
  6. 'Ode To A Nightingale' - John Keats
  7. From The Night Of Forebeing - Francis Thompson
  8. 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner' — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  9. 'Guests' - Anon
  10. 'The Pulley' - George Herbert
  11. 'The Key Of The Kingdom' - Anon
  12. 'Jerusalem' - William Blake
  13. 'Hymn On The Morning Of Christ’s Nativity' - John Milton
  14. 'The Music-Makers' - Arthur O'Shaughnessy
  15. 'Tom O’Bedlam’s Song' - Anon
  16. 'Strength' - Christopher Smart
  17. 'Leisure' - W. H. Davies
  18. 'Weathers' - Thomas Hardy
  19. 'March' — William Morris
  20. 'Home-Thoughts, From Abroad' — Robert Browning
  21. 'Sonnet xxxiii' — William Shakespeare
  22. 'Courtesy' - Hilaire Belloc
  23. 'A Charm' - Rudyard Kipling
  24. 'The Fairies’ Farewell' - Richard Corbet
  25. 'The Hundredth Psalm'
  26. The Earthly Paradise (Prologue) - William Morris
  27. 'Uphill' - Christina Rossetti
  28. 'Eve' - Ralph Hodgson
  29. ['All That’s Past' – Walter de la Mare
  30. 'Vain Questioning' – Walter de la Mare
  31. 'Cities and Thrones and Powers' – Rudyard Kipling]

  32. 2. Good Fighting

  33. 'Into Battle' - Julian Grenfell
  34. 'Magpies In Picardy' - T. P. Cameron Wilson
  35. 'Rendezvous' — Alan Seeger
  36. 'The Pilgrim' - John Bunyan
  37. 'Invictus' - W . E. Henley
  38. 'Boxing' - Rudyard Kipling
  39. 'Battle Hymn of the American Republic' - Julia Ward Howe
  40. 'Lepanto' - G. K. Chesterton
  41. 'London Under Bombardment' - Greta Briggs
  42. 'A St. Helena Lullaby' - Rudyard Kipling
  43. 'Napoleon' - Walter de la Mare
  44. 'The Reveille' - Bret Harte
  45. 'The Last Hero' - G. K. Chesterton
  46. 'A Consecration' - John Masefield
  47. 'Say Not The Struggle' - Arthur Hugh Clough
  48. 'To-morrow' - John Masefield
  49. 'The Eve Of Waterloo' - Lord Byron
  50. 'And Shall Trelawny Die?' - R. S. Hawker
  51. 'The Fight At The Bridge' - Lord Macaulay
  52. 'The Fight In The Centre' - Lord Macaulay
  53. 'The Death Of Herminius' - Lord Macaulay
  54. 'England’s Standard' - Lord Macaulay
  55. 'The Red Thread Of Honour' - Sir Francis Hastings Doyle
  56. 'The War Song Of Dinas Vawr' - Thomas Love Peacock
  57. 'The Chronicle Of The Drum' - William Makepeace Thackeray
  58. 'War Song Of The Saracens' - James Elroy Flecker
  59. 'Hervé Riel' - Robert Browning
  60. 'Drake’s Drum' - Sir Henry Newbolt
  61. 'The Fairies’ Siege' - Rudyard Kipling
  62. Leaders:
    1. 'Old Style' - Sir Walter Scott
    2. 'New Style' - Siegfried Sassoon
  63. 'The Staff Officer' - William Shakespeare
  64. ['The English War' – Dorothy L. Sayers
  65. 'The Battle of Naseby' – Lord Macaulay
  66. 'Hic jacet Arthurus' – Francis Brett Young
  67. 'Atlantic Charter' – Francis Brett Young]

  68. 3. Love and All That

  69. 'O Mistress Mine' - William Shakespeare
  70. 'A Red, Red Rose' - Robert Burns
  71. 'To His Coy Mistress' - Andrew Marvell
  72. 'Rudel To The Lady Of Tripoli' - Robert Browning
  73. 'Arab Love-Song' - Francis Thompson
  74. 'We’ll Go No More A-Roving' - Lord Byron
  75. 'The Bargain' - Sir Philip Sidney
  76. 'One Word More' - Robert Browning
  77. 'Cynara' - Ernest Dowson
  78. 'The Banks o’ Doon' - Robert Burns
  79. 'The Longest Journey' - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  80. 'Kiss’d Yestreen' - Anon
  81. 'Any Wife to Any Husband' - Robert Browning
  82. 'Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad' - Robert Burns
  83. 'Sonnet cxxix' - William Shakespeare
  84. 'The Praise Of Dust' - G. K. Chesterton
  85. 'To Helen' - Edgar Allan Poe
  86. 'The Strange Music' - G. K. Chesterton
  87. 'When I Was One-And-Twenty' - A. E. Housman
  88. 'Romance' - Robert Louis Stevenson
  89. 'Lochinvar' - Sir Walter Scott
  90. 'The Love Song Of Har Dyal' - Rudyard Kipling
  91. 'Me Heart' - G. K. Chesterton
  92. 'Sonnet cxxx' - William Shakespeare
  93. 'Sir Richard’s Song' — Rudyard Kipling
  94. 'One Way Of Love' — Robert Browning
  95. 'Why So Pale And Wan?' — Sir John Suckling
  96. 'Love’s Secret' - William Blake
  97. 'The Clod and the Pebble' - William Blake
  98. 'The Parting' - Michael Drayton
  99. 'When You are Old' - W. B. Yeats
  100. 'John Anderson, My Jo' - Robert Burns
  101. 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' - John Keats
  102. 'Annabel Lee' - Edgar Allan Poe
  103. ['Tam i’ the Kirk' – Violet Jacob
  104. 'Love' – George Herbert
  105. 'Parting at Dawn' – Anon
  106. 'The Cap and Bells' – W. B. Yeats]

  107. 4. The Call Of The Wild

  108. 'Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal' - Rudyard Kipling
  109. 'The Song Of Honour' - Ralph Hodgson
  110. 'Saul' - Robert Browning
  111. 'The Song Of Diego Valdez' - Rudyard Kipling
  112. 'Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came' – Robert Browning
  113. 'The Listeners' - Walter de la Mare
  114. 'Gipsy Vans' - Rudyard Kipling
  115. 'The Old Ships' - James Elroy Flecker
  116. 'Harp Song Of The Dane Women' - Rudyard Kipling
  117. 'Waring' - Robert Browning
  118. 'Cargoes' - John Masefield
  119. 'The Sea And The Hills' - Rudyard Kipling
  120. 'Sea Fever' - John Masefield
  121. 'Sir Patrick Spens' - Anon
  122. 'The Long Trail' - Rudyard Kipling
  123. 'Tarantella' - Hilaire Belloc
  124. 'Could Man Be Drunk For Ever' - A. E. Housman
  125. 'The Feet of the Young Men' - Rudyard Kipling
  126. 'The Last Chantey' - Rudyard Kipling
  127. 'The Wishing-Caps' - Rudyard Kipling
  128. 'The Death and Last Confession of Wandering Peter' - Hilaire Belloc
  129. From Hassan - James Elroy Flecker
  130. 'Three Fishers Went Sailing' - Charles Kingsley
  131. 'The Song Of The Banjo' - Rudyard Kipling
  132. 'The Outlaw' - Sir Walter Scott
  133. 'The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies' – Anon
  134. 'Vagabond' - John Masefield
  135. 'A Jacobite’s Exile' - Algernon Charles Swinburne
  136. 'London Town' - John Masefield
  137. 'The Odyssey' - Andrew Lang
  138. 'The Risks Of The Game' - Adam Lindsay Gordon
  139. 'How We Beat The Favourite' - Adam Lindsay Gordon
  140. Reynard the Fox (Extracts) - John Masefield
  141. Right Royal (Extract) - John Masefield
  142. 'To A Black Greyhound' - Julian Grenfell

  143. 5. Conversation Pieces

  144. 'Bishop Blougram’s Apology' - Robert Browning
  145. 'True Thomas' - Anon
  146. 'The Last Rhyme of True Thomas' - Rudyard Kipling
  147. 'The Mary Gloster' - Rudyard Kipling
  148. 'The Bishop Orders His Tomb' - Robert Browning
  149. 'M’Andrew’s Hymn' - Rudyard Kipling
  150. 'Fra Lippo Lippi' - Robert Browning
  151. 'Tomlinson' (extracts) - Rudyard Kipling
  152. 'A Toccata Of Galuppi’s' - Robert Browning
  153. 'Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam' - Edward Fitzgerald
  154. 'The Ballad Of Reading Gaol'- Oscar Wilde
  155. 'My Last Duchess' — Robert Browning
  156. 'The Secret People' - G. K. Chesterton
  157. 'The High Tide On The Coast Of Lincolnshire' – Jean Ingelow
  158. 'If' - Rudyard Kipling
  159. 'Mending Wall' - Robert Frost
  160. 'The Female Of The Species' - Rudyard Kipling
  161. 'Lucy Ashton’s Song' - Sir Walter Scott

  162. 6. The Lighter Side

  163. 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' - Robert Browning
  164. 'The Lay of St. Cuthbert' - R. H. Barham
  165. 'The Rolling English Road' - G. K. Chesterton
  166. 'When ’Omer Smote ’Is Bloomin’ Lyre' - Rudyard Kipling
  167. 'The Jumblies' - Edward Lear
  168. 'Love, Drink, and Debt' - Alexander Brome
  169. 'The Boon Companion' - Oliver St. John Gogarty
  170. 'Drinking' - Abraham Cowley
  171. 'Birds, Bags, Bears, and Buns' - Anon
  172. 'The Motor Bus' - A. D. Godley
  173. 'The King Of Brentford' - William Makepeace Thackeray
  174. 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat' - Edward Lear
  175. 'The Song of Right And Wrong' - G. K. Chesterton
  176. 'In Praise of Young Girls' - Raymond Asquith
  177. 'To R. K.' — J. K. Stephen
  178. 'The Massacre Of The Macpherson' - W. E. Aytoun
  179. 'Poor But Honest' - Anon
  180. 'Common Sense' - Harry Graham
  181. The Modern Traveller (Extract) - Hilaire Belloc
  182. 'Muckle-Mouth Meg' — Robert Browning

  183. 7. Hymns Of Hate

  184. 'Auguries of Innocence' - William Blake
  185. 'The Bells of Heaven' - Ralph Hodgson
  186. 'Never Get Out' - John Galsworthy
  187. 'A Hymn of Hate Against England' - Ernst Lissauer
  188. 'The Confessional' - Robert Browning
  189. 'The Latest Decalogue' - Arthur Hugh Clough
  190. 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister' - Robert Browning
  191. 'A Poison Tree' - William Blake
  192. 'The Lost Leader' - Robert Browning
  193. 'Gehazi' - Rudyard Kipling
  194. 'Holy-Cross Day' - Robert Browning
  195. 'Lines to a Don' - Hilaire Belloc
  196. 'Naaman’s Song' - Rudyard Kipling

  197. 8. Ragbag

  198. 'Kilmeny' - James Hogg
  199. 'Scotland Yet' - Anon
  200. 'Faith' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  201. 'Questions' - C. B. T.
  202. 'Elizabeth of Bohemia' - Sir Henry Wotton
  203. 'Strong Love' - A. E. Housman
  204. 'Wisdom?' - Laurence Hope
  205. 'The Chase and the Race' - Adam Lindsay Gordon
  206. 'Man’s Testament' - Adam Lindsay Gordon
  207. 'The Little Men' - William Allingham
  208. 'The East A-Callin’' - Oscar Wilde
  209. 'The Golden Road' - James Elroy Flecker
  210. 'Fey' - Anon
  211. 'Challenge' - Sir Walter Scott
  212. 'Marmion and Douglas' - Sir Walter Scott
  213. 'The East' - Matthew Arnold
  214. Alexander’s Feast (Extract) - John Dryden
  215. 'The Birkenhead' - Sir Henry Yule
  216. 'Swan Song - Algernon Charles Swinburne
  217. 'Courage' - John Galsworthy
  218. The White Cliffs (Extract) - Alice Duer Miller
  219. 'My Candle' - Edna St. Vincent Millay
  220. 'The Tokens' - Francis Thompson
  221. 'Carpe Diem' - Laurence Hope
  222. 'Litany' - G. K. Chesterton
  223. 'Who Goes Home?' - G. K. Chesterton
  224. 'England' - Rudyard Kipling
  225. 'Greece' - Robert Browning
  226. 'The Judgment of Paris' - Anon
  227. 'The Wide, Wide World' - Rudyard Kipling
  228. 'Greatness' - Thomas Love Peacock
  229. 'Dodoism' - W. J. Courthope
  230. 'One-and-Twenty' - Samuel Johnson
  231. 'Jacobite Toast' - John Byrom
  232. 'Farmers' - Anon
  233. 'Maxim' - Rudyard Kipling
  234. Epigrams:
    1. i - Sir John Harrington
    2. ii - Hilaire Belloc
    3. iii - W. N. Ewer
    4. iv - Richard Garnett
  235. 'The Sick Stockrider' - Adam Lindsay Gordon
  236. 'The Touch' - James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
  237. 'Grace' - Robert Herrick
  238. 'Wildness' - Gerard Manley Hopkins
  239. 'Blondie Goes To Heaven' – Anon
  240. ['The Kye-Song of St Bride' – Fiona Macleod
  241. 'The Brave' – G. K. Chesterton
  242. 'Too Late' – Christina Rossetti
  243. 'Spring' – Ralph Waldo Emerson]

  244. 9. Last Post

  245. 'The Soldier’s Death' — Anne Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea
  246. 'The Dead' - Rupert Brooke
  247. 'The Volunteer' - Herbert Asquith
  248. 'Here Dead Lie We' - A. E. Housman
  249. 'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries' - A. E. Housman
  250. 'In Flanders Fields' - John Mccrae
  251. 'My Boy Jack' - Rudyard Kipling
  252. 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' - W. B. Yeats
  253. 'Macpherson’s Farewell' - Robert Burns
  254. 'Death The Leveller' - James Shirley
  255. 'An Epitaph' - Stephen Hawes
  256. 'The Conclusion' - Sir Walter Raleigh
  257. 'A Lyke-Wake Dirge' - Anon
  258. 'In Time Of Pestilence' - Thomas Nashe
  259. 'Messages' - Francis Thompson
  260. Requiems:
    1. i - Christina Rossetti
    2. ii - Robert Louis Stevenson
  261. Gravestones:
    1. i - George Macdonald
    2. ii - John Cleveland
    3. iii - Anon
  262. 'To Death' - Oliver St. John Gogarty
  263. 'How Sleep the Brave' - William Collins
  264. 'Fratri Dilectissimo' - John Buchan
  265. ['Afterwards' – Thomas Hardy
  266. 'Nothing for Tears' – John Milton
  267. 'Heraclitus' – William Cory]

  268. Outside The Gate

  269. 'Sonnet for the Madonna of the Cherries' — A. P. Wavell


Field Marshal Earl Wavell (1883-1950)

Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell
(1883-1950)

    Books:

  1. The Palestine Campaigns (1933)
  2. 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)
  3. Generals and Generalship: The Lees Knowles Lectures Delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1939 (1941)
  4. Soldiers and Soldiering or Epithets of War (1953)
  5. Allenby, Soldier and Statesman (1946)
  6. Speaking Generally: broadcasts, Orders and Addresses in Time of War (1939–43) (1946)
  7. The Good Soldier (1948)
  8. Wavell: The Viceroy's Journal (1973)

  9. Edited & Translated:

  10. Andrei Georgievich Elchaninov. Tsar Nicholas II (1913)
  11. Andrei Georgievich Elchaninov. The Tsar and his People (1914)
  12. Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry (1944)
  13. 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.


Joos van Cleve: The Madonna of the Cherries (c.1540)





Paul Fussell, ed.: The Bloody Game (1991)

Paul Fussell, ed.

The Bloody Game
(1991)

  • 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

  1. Paul Fussell: Introduction: On Modern War

  2. I - The First World War
    'Never Such Innocence Again'

  3. Rupert Brooke: 'Peace'
  4. Philip Larkin: 'MCMXIV'
  5. A. E. Housman: 'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'
  6. Hugh MacDiarmid: 'Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'
  7. R. A. Scott MacFie: To His Father
  8. Katharine Tynan: 'Flower of Youth'
  9. W. N. Hodgson: 'Before Action'
  10. Daniel J. Sweeney: To Ivy Williams
  11. Siegfried Sassoon:
    1. From Diaries
    2. 'Blighters'
    3. 'How To Die'
    4. 'The General'
    5. 'Lamentations'
    6. 'Glory of Women'
  12. David Jones: From In Parenthesis
  13. Ivor Gurney:
    1. 'The Silent One'
    2. 'The Bohemians'
  14. British Soldiers’ Songs:
    1. 'The Reason Why'
    2. 'For You But Not for Me (The Bells of Hell)'
    3. 'The Old Battalion'
  15. Wilfrid Gibson:
    1. 'In the Ambulance'
    2. 'Back'
  16. Isaac Rosenberg: 'Break of Day in the Trenches'
  17. Herbert Read: 'The Happy Warrior'
  18. Robert Graves: From Goodbye to All That
  19. Frank Richards: From Old Soldiers Never Die
  20. Erich Maria Remarque: From All Quiet on the Western Front (Trans. A. W. Wheen)'
  21. Edmund Blunden:
    1. 'Concert Party: Busseboom'
    2. 'Pillbox'
    3. 'Third Ypres'
  22. Edward Thomas:
    1. 'In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)'
    2. 'This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong'
    3. 'A Private'
  23. Eric Hiscock: From The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling
  24. Wilfred Owen:
    1. 'Insensibility'
    2. 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
    3. 'Dulce et Decorum est'
    4. 'Futility'
    5. 'The Send-Off'
  25. Robert C. Hoffman: From I Remember the Last War
  26. James Milne: To His Wife
  27. Vera Brittain: From Testament of Youth
  28. Rudyard Kipling: From Epitaphs of the War
  29. Ivor Gurney:
    1. 'Strange Hells'
    2. 'War Books'
  30. Philip Johnstone: 'High Wood'
  31. Siegfried Sassoon: 'Aftermath: March 1919'
  32. Ezra Pound: From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)
  33. E. E. Cummings:
    1. 'i sing of Olaf glad and big'
    2. 'my sweet old etcetera'
    3. '“next to of course god america I”'
  34. Vernon Scannell: 'The Great War'

  35. II - The Spanish Civil War
    'Authors Take Sides'

  36. Luis Buñuel: From My Last Sigh (Trans. Abigail Israel)
  37. F. G. Tinker: From Some Still Live
  38. John Dos Passos: Room and Bath at the Hotel Florida
  39. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: From Wind, Sand, and Stars (Trans. Lewis Galantiere)
  40. George Orwell: From Homage to Catalonia
  41. Ernest Hemingway: From For Whom the Bell Tolls
  42. Stephen Spender:
    1. 'Two Armies'
    2. 'Ultima Ratio Regum'

  43. III - The Second World War
    'Almost Beyond Human Conception'

  44. Herbert Read: ‘To a Conscript of 1940’
  45. Alun Lewis: “All Day It Has Rained’
  46. Henry Reed: Lessons of the War
  47. John Pudney:
    1. ‘For Johnny’
    2. ‘Missing’
  48. Gavin Ewart:
    1. ‘When a Beau Goes In’
    2. ‘Incident, Second World War’
  49. James Jones:
    1. From The Thin Red Line
    2. From WWII
  50. Dudley Randall: From Pacific Epitaphs
  51. Norman Mailer: From The Naked and the Dead
  52. Keith Douglas:
    1. From Alamein to Zem Zem
    2. Vergissmeinicht
  53. Guy Sajer: From The Forgotten Soldier (Trans. Lily Emmet)
  54. William Ellison: To Elizabeth
  55. Max Hastings: From Bomber Command
  56. Randall Jarrell:
    1. ‘Eighth Air Force’
    2. ‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’
    3. ‘Losses’
  57. Barry Broadfoot: From Six War Years, 1939-1945: Memories of Canadians at Home and Abroad
  58. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: To His Parents
  59. Harold L. Bond: From Return to Cassino: A Memoir of the Fight for Rome
  60. John M. Bennett: To His Father
  61. Charles A. Lindbergh: From Wartime Journals
  62. Martha Gellhorn: From The Face of War
  63. William Preston:
    1. To His Father
    2. To Phyll
  64. Rudolf Höss: From Commandant of Auschwitz (Trans. Constantine FitzGibbon)
  65. Marguerite Duras: From The War (Trans. Barbara Bray)
  66. Louis Simpson:
    1. ‘Carentan O Carentan’
    2. ‘On the Ledge’
    3. ‘The Battle’
  67. Richard Eberhart: ‘The Fury of Aerial Bombardment’
  68. Norman Lewis: From Naples ’44
  69. Ivor Rowbery: To His Mother
  70. Eugene B. Sledge: From With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
  71. Kermit Stewart:
    1. To His Parents
    2. To Guy
  72. John Guest: From Broken Images
  73. James Robeson: To His Parents
  74. Studs Terkel: From “The Good War”
  75. Harry Towne: To His Mother
  76. James J. Fahey: From Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945
  77. Mitchell Sharpe: To His Mother
  78. Donald Bain: ‘War Poet’
  79. Heinrich Böll: A Letter to My Sons: War’s End (Trans. Michael Hofmann)
  80. Howard Nemerov: ‘Redeployment’
  81. Vernon Scannell: ‘Walking Wounded’
  82. Willie Morris: From James Jones: A Friendship

  83. IV - The Wars in Asia
    'Obscenity without Victory'

  84. Marguerite Higgins: From War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent
  85. Jean Larteguy: From The Face of War: Reflections on Men and Combat (Trans. Beth de Bilio)
  86. Brian Alec Floyd: 'Lance Coporal Purdue Grace, U. S. M. C.'
  87. Bernard Edelman: From Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
  88. Seymour M. Hersh: From My Lai 4
  89. Gloria Emerson: From Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and Ruins from the Vietnam War
  90. John Ketwig: From And a Hard Rain Fell
  91. Ron Kovic: From Born on the Fourth of July
  92. Tim O'Brien: From If I Die in a Combat Zone
  93. Michael Herr: From Dispatches
  94. Keith Walker: From A Piece of My Heart
  95. Truong Nhu Tang: From A Viet Cong Memoir (with David Chanoff & Doan Van Toai)
  96. Bruce Weigl: 'Mines'
  97. Hayden Carruth: 'On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam'

  98. V - Afterwords

  99. Willie Morris: From James Jones: A Friendship
  100. Paul Dehn: 'Armistice'
  101. Harrison E. Salisbury: From A Journey for Our Times
  102. Douglas MacArthur: From Address to the Corps of Cadets, West Point, May 12, 1962
  103. Peter Porter: ‘Your Attention Please’


Paul Fussell (1945)

Paul Fussell
(1924-2012)

    Books:

  1. Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England (1954 / rev. 1966)
  2. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965)
  3. The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke (1965)
  4. Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)
  5. English Augustan Poetry (1972)
  6. The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
    • The Great War and Modern Memory. 1975. Oxford Paperbacks, 385. London: Oxford University Press, 1977.
  7. Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980)
    • Abroad: British Literary Travelling between the Wars. 1980. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
  8. The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations (1982)
  9. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)
  10. Caste Marks: Style and Status in the USA (1984. – this is the UK edition of Class)
  11. Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)
  12. Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989)
  13. BAD – Or, The Dumbing of America (1991)
  14. The Anti-Egotist. Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters (1994)
  15. Doing Battle – The Making of a Skeptic (1996)
  16. Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear (2002)
  17. The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945 (2003)

  18. Edited:

  19. [with Geoffrey Tillotson & Marshall Waingrow] Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1969)
  20. The Ordeal of Alfred M. Hale: The Memoirs of a Soldier Servant (1975)
  21. 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.
  22. The Norton Book of Travel (1987)
    • The Norton Book of Travel. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987.
  23. 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.


Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)




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