NIGHT IN THE FRONT LINE: And Other Second World War Stories

The Second World War sparked the writing of hundreds of short stories, by servicemen and women as well as civilians. They appeared in magazines and collections during and after the war and addressed all areas of the conflict, from the home front to service abroad. 'People whose homes had been blown up went to infinite lengths to assemble bits of themselves - broken ornaments, old shoes, torn scraps of the curtains that had hung in a room - from the wreckage. In the same way, they assembled and checked themselves from stories and poems, from their memories, from one another's talk' novelist Elizabeth Bowen observed. The anthology includes short fiction by Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Christopher Isherwood, a story entitled Gas Masks by Jan Struther, Night In the Front Line by Mollie Lefebure, Grandma was a Land Girl by Frederick Burroughs Urquhart, I Had to Go Sick by Julian Maclaren-Ross, The Orange Grove by Alun Lewis, A Piece of Cake by Roald Dahl, and The Disinherited by H. E. Bates. In the final section entitled Looking Ahead, are two short stories, one by Elizabeth Taylor and a second by Inez Holden. 12 stories covering combatants, civilians and war workers. Paperback, 189 pages.