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These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany.
Mown Fields (1933) represents the culmination and swan song of a life that ended too soon – the author finished the novel just five months before his death from tuberculosis, at the age of thirty-one.
A moving and poignant chronicle of the siege and destruction of Vukovar in 1991 through 57 short "postcard" chapters. Pavličić does not write from the perspective of an "ordinary" Zagreb resident who spent the summer of 1991 in Vukovar, and then followed
War-psychological prose set during the Homeland War (1991–1995), with a focus on Slavonia and partly on events in Bosnia. The work belongs to a cycle of prose about the war and women's experiences in it.
Battle Cry (1953) is Leon Uris's debut novel based on his experience in World War II as a member of the 6th Marine Regiment.