HEMINGWAY, Ernest. [Edited and with an Introduction by].
Men At War: The Best War Stories of All Time.
New York: Crown Publishers , 1942.
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"This book will not tell you how to die. This book will tell you, though, how all men from the earliest times we know have fought and died": First edition, first printing of Men At War: The Best War Stories of All Time; Edited and with an Introduction by Ernest Hemingway
First edition, first printing of this classic compilation of 82 great war stories selected by Ernest Hemingway. Octavo, original boards. Based on a plan by William Kozlenko. Near fine in a very good first state dust jacket. Hanneman A19a.
Men At War: The Best War Stories of All Time contains 82 great war stories selected by Ernest Hemingway from such authors as Tolstoy, T.E. Lawrence, Stephen Crane, Victor Hugo, Charles Oman, Winston Churchill, James Hilton, Col. John W. Thomason, William Faulkner, Rudyard Kipling, C.S. Forester, Alexander Woollcott, Marquis James, and many others. "This book will not tell you how to die. Some cheer-leaders of war can always get out a pamphlet telling the best way to go through that small but necessary business at the end... No. This book will not tell you how to die. This book will tell you, though, how all men from the earliest times we know have fought and died. So when you have read it you will know that there are no worse things to be gone through than men have gone through before" (Ernest Hemingway, Introduction).
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