The 48 stories collected here cover the full scope of war -- from the first three stories which analyze how children are introduced to war to the last three, which dwell on death. In between, there is everything else: the battlefield and the home front, bravery and cowardice, despair and elation, victory and defeat. There are stories that will make you laugh out loud and stories that will haunt your dreams and make you weep. Includes stories by Mark Twain, Saki, O. Henry, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Guy de Maupassant, Katherine Mansfield, Leonid Andreyev, Jonathan Swift, L. Frank Baum, Amy Lowell, Alfred Noyes, Jack London, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, Henry Van Dyke, Luigi Pirandello, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Leacock, Sherwood Anderson. and more great writers.
Susan Ives is on the Staff of the San Antonio peaceCENTER, where, since 2007, she has been the driving force behind peaceCENTER books. She also facilitates classes about nonviolence, especially the history of peace and justice movements.
Susan is a native of Bucks County, PA; she has a degree in Political Science from Drew University in Madison, NJ. In prior incarnations she has been a unionized sandwich and salad maker, a canoeing instructor, an advertising copywriter, an army officer and a newspaper columnist.
