Tales of War

by Lord Dunsany

31 chapters2h 38mEnglish1918

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Lord Dunsany brings his lucid and magical prose to the subject of the harsh realities of war by providing a series of vignettes that are at times grim and grounded but also at times eerie and fantastical. Summary by Ben Tucker.

1The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood

753

2The Road

302

3An Imperial Monument

303

4A Walk to the Trenches

310

5A Walk in Picardy

278

6What Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventh

356

7Standing To

175

8The Splendid Traveller

464

9Shells

322

10Two Degrees of Envy

228

11The Master of No Man’s Land

179

12Weeds and Wire

214

13Spring in England and Flanders

219

14The Nightmare Countries

286

15Spring and the Kaiser

173

16Two Songs

190

17The Punishment

479

18The English Spirit

335

19An Investigation Into the Causes and Origin of the War

443

20Lost

236

21The Last Mirage

273

22A Famous Man

287

23The Oases of Death

136

24Anglo-Saxon Tyranny

296

25Memories

281

26The Movement

337

27Nature’s Cad

386

28The Home of Herr Schnitzelhaaser

430

29A Deed of Mercy

270

30Last Scene of All

269

31Old England

283

Tales of War

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