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For Whom the Bell Tolls
'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony BurgessHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital …
Sophie's Choice
In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. …
All Quiet on the Western Front
In 1914, a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth, …
Birds Without Wings
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and …
Railway Man
During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred …
Very Long Engagement
In 1917, five French soldiers were court-martialled for self-inflicted wounds and pushed, their hands bound, into "No-Man's Land". The youngest of the condemned men was the fiance …
Nineteen Twenty-One
In a language deeply soaked in the time and by means of a beguiling story which gradually haunts its own process, Nineteen Twenty-One vividly recreates the year in which The Waste …
War Stories
In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen have collected the best fiction about war in the twentieth century. Ranging from the First World War to …