No Man's Land

Writings from a World at War

Pete Ayrton

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Serpents Tail
01 February 2014

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Anthologies (non-poetry); Literary reference works; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); First World War fiction; History

The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from Brooke to Sassoon, the poetry generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in prose fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the horror of life in the trenches and the grand farce of the first industrial war. Featuring forty-seven writers from twenty different nations, representing all the main participants in the conflict, No Man's Land is a truly international anthology of First World War fiction.

Work by Siegfried Sassoon, Erich Maria Remarque, Willa Cather and Rose Macaulay sits alongside forgotten masterpieces such as Stratis Myrivilis's Life in the Tomb, Raymond Escholier's Mahmadou Fofana and Mary Borden's The Forbidden Zone. No Man's Land is a brilliant memorial to the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event.

By: Pete Ayrton
Imprint: Serpents Tail
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 47mm
Weight: 879g
ISBN: 9781846689253
ISBN 10: 1846689252
Pages: 500
Publication Date: 01 February 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pete Ayrton was born in London in 1943. After studying and briefly teaching philosophy, a period of left-wing tourism in France and Italy led to his learning to read and converse in these languages, and to take part in the intense, opaque discourses of Marxism. A period of work as translator led to a job as editor with Pluto Press and to his founding in 1986 of Serpent's Tail with the specific remit of publishing fiction in translation; this includes two First World War classics Frederic Manning's Her Privates We and Gabriel Chevallier's Fear, both represented in No Man's Land.

Reviews for No Man's Land: Writings from a World at War

Splendid ... what a cast Ayrton has assembled ... The war, in all its calculated cruelty, its human impact, its formidable weapons of death and destruction and - yes - its futility, is captured brilliantly in this remarkable, wide-ranging anthology Herald Trailblazing ... even avid readers of First World War prose will find eye-opening discoveries here -- Boyd Tonkin Independent The essential collection of writing from the First World War ... wonderfully wide-ranging The Times