Writing war : the best contemporary journalism about warfare and conflict from around the world / edited by Clint Willis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Willis, Clint.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Press coverage.

War.

War--Literary collections.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

x, 289 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [2003]

Summary:

Praise for The War: Stories of Life and Death from World War II, also from Adrenaline Books"Like the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan . . . these stories tell of war in frank, unsentimental terms, brutal and honest and gripping."--Washington Post Book World

Contents:

From Means of escape / Philip Caputo

From Pity the nation / Robert Fisk

From Zinky boys / Svetlana Alexievich

From Soldiers of God / Robert D. Kaplan

From A complicated war / William Finnegan

From A different kind of war story / Carolyn Nordstrom

From Martyrs' day / Michael Kelly

From Hazardous duty / David H. Hackworth

From The tenth circle of hell / Rezak Hukanović

Prisoner of war / Scott Anderson

From Kigali's wounds, through a doctor's eyes / John Sundin

Judgment day / Alan Zarembo

Anaconda / John Sack

Good kills / Peter Maass.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1560255072

OCLC:

53208888