No man's land : writings from a world at war / chosen and introduced by Pete Ayrton.

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. Featuring forty-seven writers from all the main participants in the First World War, No man's land is the first collection of international fiction inspired by the conflict. It presents stories of life on the battle and home fronts that are shocking, moving and uplifting. It also casts fresh light on the aims and attitudes of the opposing sides. Work by Siegfried Sassoon, Erich Maria Remarque, Willa Cather and Vera Brittain sits alongside forgotten masterpieces ... The collection offers unique insights into the war's individual and communal triumphs and tragedies, the motives and inner lives of its combatants, and the mix of courage, comradeship, farce, sadness and horror of life in the trenches.