The Penguin Book of First World War Stories

This Penguin Classics anthology gathers twenty-five short stories about the First World War, arranged in four sections: "Front," "Spies and Intelligence," "At Home," and "In Retrospect." Contributors include Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Buchan, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Radclyffe Hall, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Graves, Muriel Spark, and Julian Barnes, spanning writing from the war years through later retrospective fiction.

The collection is edited by Barbara Korte and Ann-Marie Einhaus, with an introduction by Korte examining the war-literature genre. The edition also includes a suggested reading list, explanatory notes, maps, a list of Western Front locations, a glossary of military terms, and contributor biographies.