First published 2018
This anthology gathers more than a dozen powerful stories about World War II from acclaimed writers. The collection draws from celebrated novels including James Jones's From Here to Eternity and Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Real accounts appear alongside fiction, featuring Guy Gibson's firsthand experiences during the Battle of Britain and Nancy Wake's dangerous work with the French Resistance. Each story provides a different lens through which to view the global conflict. Soldiers face impossible choices in the Pacific. Pilots navigate deadly skies over England. Resistance fighters risk everything behind enemy lines. The writers capture both the devastation war brings and the courage it demands. These varied perspectives illuminate different theaters of the war and the human experiences within them. The anthology offers readers multiple entry points into understanding how this massive conflict touched individual lives across continents and battlefields.
Genres: anthologies, historical-fiction, 20th-century, war, military-fiction
Vibes: emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: based-on-true-events, varied-perspectives
Setting: Pacific, England, France
Period: World War II
256 pages · Paperback · Canterbury Classics
Content warnings: violence, war