World War One Short Stories

This original anthology features tales written mostly by former soldiers and others with firsthand experience of World War I's devastation. Contents include "Introduction to the Trenches" by Richard Aldington, "The Blind Ones," by Isaak Babel, and tales by Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, and others.

Bob Blaisdell is professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College and the editor of twenty-two Dover literature and poetry collections.

Red Tape by May Sinclair Bombardment by Henri Britling The French Poodle by Wyndham Lewis The Port Lookout by "Bartimeus" A Raid Night by H. M. Tomlinson A Trade Report Only by C. E. Montague The Traitor by Somerset Maugham The Fifth Card by Mikhail Andreevich Osorgin Told by the Schoolmaster by John Galsworthy England by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (Lord Dunsany) Introduction to the Trenches by Richard Aldington The Indomitable Tweedy by A. P. Herbert Pink Flannel by Ford Madox Ford Blind by Mary Borden Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling The Blind Ones by Isaak Babel Misapplied Energy by William T. Scanlon The Fly by Katherine Mansfield