The Great War

The Great War
Author: Jim Kay Jim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781406370713

7 best short stories - World War I

7 best short stories - World War I
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3968583531

Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", World War I was one of the largest wars in history and also one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Writers often function as the memory of the world, eternalizing in words difficult moments that we can not forget. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that allow us to look at the various faces of the war: - Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield - May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft - The Bowmen by Arthur Machen - His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

Best Little Stories from World War II

Best Little Stories from World War II
Author: C. Brian Kelly
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1402254857

The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war. Behind the great powers, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known moments of profound triumph and tragedy, bravery and cowardice, and good and evil. These amazing and unbelievable stories of brotherhood, redemption, escape, and civilian courage shed new light on the war that gripped the entire world. Experience the action through the eyes of people like: Lieutenant Jacob Beser, who was aboard both the Enola Gay and Bock's Car and felt the force of the shockwave that nearly destroyed the planes after dropping the H-bombs that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Professor William Miller, who collapsed during a death march of POWs in Germany and was saved by the same man who had rescued him from what would have been a fatal car wreck in Pennsylvania five years earlier. The brave civilians who answered the British Admiralty's call to help rescue an army from Dunkirk during the height of a dangerous battle and sailed small fishing boats into relentless German fire, ultimately saving 335,000 men from This is the perfect book for any history buff looking for the untold stories of military and civilian daring during World War 2.

The Penguin Book of First World War Stories

The Penguin Book of First World War Stories
Author: Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2007-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141916494

An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the war's literature. The selection covers different periods: the war years themselves, the famous boom years of the late 1920s to the more recent past in which the First World War has received new cultural interest.

7 Best Short Stories: War

7 Best Short Stories: War
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2019-06-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 8577773205

- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce - Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant - The Upturned Face by Stephen Crane - Editha by William Dean Howells - War by Luigi Pirandello - The Soul of a Regiment by Talbot Mundy - Roger Malvin's Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Lord of the Nutcracker Men

Lord of the Nutcracker Men
Author: Iain Lawrence
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2009-01-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307537897

Ten-year-old Johnny eagerly plays at war with the army of nutcracker soldiers his toymaker father whittles for him. He demolishes imaginary foes. But in 1914 Germany looms as the real enemy of Europe, and all too soon Johnny’s father is swept up in the war to end all wars. He proudly enlists with his British countrymen to fight at the front in France. The war, though, is nothing like what any soldier or person at home expected. The letters that arrive from Johnny’s dad reveal the ugly realities of combat — and the soldiers he carves and encloses begin to bear its scars. Still, Johnny adds these soldiers to his armies of Huns, Tommies, and Frenchmen, engaging them in furious fights. But when these games seem to foretell his dad’s real battles, Johnny thinks he possesses godlike powers over his wooden men. He fears he controls his father’s fate, the lives of all the soldiers in no-man’s land, and the outcome of the war itself.

7 best short stories by Arthur Machen

7 best short stories by Arthur Machen
Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3968589262

He was born in 1863 in Wales, in Caerlson-Usk. He settled in London, still young, where he was a bookstore clerk for a few months, becoming a preceptor. Subsequently, he began to write in total material shortage and fatigue. For a long time he lived on translations. Still unrecognized, he continued his work with a growing feeling that "an immense spiritual gulf separated him from other men" and that he lived as a "Robinson Crusoe of the soul."A curious fact was that he, along with W. B. Yeats and Aleister Crowley, was a member of the "Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn," the ill-fated 20th century magic society.His work is acclaimed worldwide and has already been recognized by such big names as H. P. Locecraf, Stephen King and Jorge Luis Borges. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:The Great God PanThe White PeopleThe Black SealThe Novel of the White PowderThe Red HandThe Inmost LightThe Bowmen

7 best short stories by Leonard Merrick

7 best short stories by Leonard Merrick
Author: Leonard Merrick
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2020-05-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3967996301

Leonard Merrick was an English novelist. Although largely forgotten today, he was widely admired by his peers; J. M. Barrie called Merrick the "novelist's novelist." This book contains: - Aribaud's Two Wives. - The Attack in the Rue de la Presse. - The Doll in the Pink Silk Dress. - The Elegant de Fronsac. - Fluffums. - A Millionaire's Romance. - The Propriety of Pauline.

7 best short stories by Otis Adelbert Kline

7 best short stories by Otis Adelbert Kline
Author: Otis Adelbert Kline
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2020-05-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3968588754

Otis Adelbert Kline was a songwriter, an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E. Hoffmann Price. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment: - The Corpse on the Third Slab. - The Man from the Moon. - The Cup of Blood. - Mignight Madness. - The Malignant Entity. - The Bird-People. - The Thing of a Thousand Shapes.

7 Best Short Stories by Stacy Aumonier

7 Best Short Stories by Stacy Aumonier
Author: Stacy Aumonier
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2019-05-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8577771903

It was as a short-story writer that Stacy Aumonier was most highly regarded. Fellow writers stated that some of his short stories were among the best ever written. Rebecca West said of his writing in 1922 that his ability to blend reality with the imaginary was "the envy of all artists." This selection chosen by the critic August Nemo contains the following stories: - A Source of Irritation - Where Was Wych Street? - Burney's Laugh - The Chinese Philosopher and the European War - Cricket - George - "Solemn-Looking Blokes"