Research Catalog

Title

The greatest war stories ever told / edited and with an introduction by Lamar Underwood.

Publication

Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Underwood, Lamar.

Description

xii, 335 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Includes material by Bruce Catton, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Michael Herr, Theodore Roosevelt, Victor Hugo, Evan S. Connell, Stephen E. Ambrose, Rudyard Kipling, C.S. Forester, Leo Tolstoy, William Manchester, Erich Maria Remarque, Michael Shaara, Irwin Shaw, Ernie Pyle, Stephen Crane, S.L.A. Marshall, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, among others.

Subject

War stories

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The cornfield / Bruce Catton -- The morning they shot the spies / W.C. Heinz -- The fight at the bridge / Ernest Hemingway -- Frozen chosin / Martin Russ -- Two soldiers / William Faulkner -- The leipzig mission / Bert Stiles -- Breathing in / Michael Herr -- The sword of the Lord and of Gideon / Theodore Roosevelt -- Waterloo / Victor Hugo -- Landing zone x-ray / Robert Mason -- Custer and the Little Bighorn / Evan S. Connell -- Omaha Beach / Stephen E. Ambrose -- The drums of the fore and aft / Rudyard Kipling -- Sink the Bismarck! / C.S. Forester -- The battle at Borodino / Leo Tolstoy -- Les braves gens (The brave men) / William Manchester -- All quiet on the Western Front / Erich Maria Remarque -- Pickett's charge / Michael Shaara -- Faith at sea / Irwin Shaw -- Mountain fighting / Ernie Pyle -- The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane -- The perfect deadfall / S.L.A. Marshall -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Condord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson.

ISBN

1585742392

LCCN

^^2001269717

OCLC

• 47126567
• SCSB-11642338

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library