NO MANS LAND WRITINGS FROM A WORLD AT WAR CHOSEN BY PETE AYRTON
No Man's Land : Writings from a World at War
By:Pete Ayrton,
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Imprint:Serpent's Tail
ISBN/EAN:1846689252 / 9781846689253
Format:Hardback
Pagination:500 pages
Dimensions:240 x 162 mm, 879 grams
Country of Pub.:United Kingdom
Pub Date:02/01/2014
The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from Brooke to Sassoon, the poetry generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in prose fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the horror of life in the trenches and the grand farce of the first industrial war. Featuring forty-seven writers from twenty different nations, representing all the main participants in the conflict, No Man's Land is a truly international anthology of First World War fiction.
Work by Siegfried Sassoon, Erich Maria Remarque, Willa Cather and Rose Macaulay sits alongside forgotten masterpieces such as Stratis Myrivilis's Life in the Tomb, Raymond Escholier's Mahmadou Fofana and Mary Borden's The Forbidden Zone. No Man's Land is a brilliant memorial to the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event.
