A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writers
On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork "The Grapes of Wrath"?and at the height of the American war effort?John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and i[...]
Familiar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, "Paths of Glory" explores the perilous complications involved in what nations demand of their soldiers in wartime. Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen during the First World War whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and[...]
One of the great World War I antiwar novels--honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, "Death of a Hero," finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the Britis[...]