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|title=No Man's Land: Writings From A World At War
|author=Pete Ayrton (editor)
|publisher=Serpent's Tail
|date=January 2014
|website=http://serpentstail.com
|summary=A timely collection of short pieces of fiction, taken from both sides of the Great War, and from all around the world – although with a bias towards the Western Front's trenches. Featuring established and lesser-known names, and nothing published after 1945, this is a multi-faceted portrayal of a world tearing itself apart; and without the taint of hindsight, it's all very much in the moment.
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July 2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War: a war that has become imprinted on the national consciousness of Britain (and plenty of modern nation-states), partly because of the large numbers of people (mostly men) writing about it. I don't mean journalists, who had been covering wars for the Victorian public, but artists: poets, authors, memoirists and painters. The poets especially have stamped World War One on collective memory, through countless poetry anthologies, recitals at memorials, and in school classrooms.
Pete Ayrton's collection, ''No Man's Land: Writings From A World At War'', aims to redress the balance and presents WWI as seen by the fiction writers, often in translation. These are short stories and extracts from novels or semi-fictionalised memoirs from all over the first global battlefield, in combat and on the home front. As you'd expect it's a hefty tome (over 500 pages, and there's a lot I haven't room to go into here), but such a weighty ambition demands a weighty result.
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