Series: Against War

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 is 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...

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. Here is a 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 edited diary of an individual...

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. Bitter and impassioned, The Tin Drum delivers a scathing dissection of Germany and Poland under the Nazis. On his third birthday, Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and...

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. Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. Billy Pilgrim—hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower, and soldier—has become unstuck in time. Hiding in...

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. 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...

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. A haunting portrayal of love and betrayal in a London hollowed by war. It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her...

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. Based on the true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, The Sorrow of War is revered as the 'All Quiet on the Western Front for our era'. Kien's job is...