War

<p>A soldier falls asleep on duty and is threatened with being court-martialled. An officer lies in mud fighting for his life and the life of his men. A young man walks across Waterloo Bridge explosives in his rucksack heart pounding. In this powerfully moving book Faulks shows us the true face of war. These are stories of death and survival of hope and despair and of ordinary people whose lives will never be the same again.<br><br>Selected from the books <i>Birdsong</i> <i>A Possible Life </i>and <i>A Week in December </i>by Sebastian Faulks<br><br><b>VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.</b><br><br>A series of short books by the world&#146;s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human<br><br>Also in the Vintage Minis series:<br><i>Home </i>by Salman Rushdie<br><i>Fatherhood </i>by Karl Ove Knausgaard<br><i>Work </i>by Joseph Heller<br><i>Dreams </i>by Sigmund Freud</p>