Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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Based on the true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, The Sorrow of War is revered as the &lsquo;All Quiet on the Western Front for our era&rsquo;. 
 
Kien&rsquo;s job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well &ndash; this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years of his life he gave to a senseless war. 
 
'A book about writing, about lost youth, it is also a beautiful agonising love story... a magnificent achievement' Independent 
 
TRANSLATED BY FRANK PALMOS AND PHAN THANH HAO 
 
This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

The Sorrow of War

Margaret Forster

Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up, coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women's lives from the First World War to Greenham Common and beyond. 
 
This is the &lsquo;edited&rsquo; diary of an individual woman, born in 1901, and a story of the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins keeping her journal, vividly recording the drama of everyday life. From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s, through social work and the build-up to another war, in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London, this is a story both fictional and true. Full of the texture of life, beautifully observed and evocative, it tells the story of an ordinary woman&rsquo;s life against the huge canvas of the last century. 
 
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 
 
This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

Diary of an Ordinary Woman

Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War 
 
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels... 
 
'One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce' Observer 
 
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** 
 
This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Erich Maria Remarque

The most famous anti-war novel ever written. 
 
In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches. 
 
'Remarque's evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force' The Times 
 
TRANSLATED BY BRIAN MURDOCH 
 
This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. 
 
All Quiet on the Western Front, BAFTA and Oscar winner, 2023

All Quiet on the Western Front

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