The New Yorker book of war pieces

Letter from London, September 3, 1939 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from Paris, September 10, 1939 / Janet Flanner

Letter from Paris, October 22, 1939 / A.J. Liebling

Departure from Poland / Princess Paul Sapieha

Letter from London, May 12, 1940 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from Paris, May 12, 1940 / A.J. Liebling

Letter from Paris, May 18, 1940 / A.J. Liebling

Letter from London, May 24, 1940 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from London, June 15, 1940 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from London, June 22, 1940 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Paris postscript / A.J. Liebling

Letter from England, August 18, 1940 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from London, August 25, 1940 / Mollie Panter Downes

Letter from London, August 30, 1940 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from London, September 8, 1940 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from London, September 14, 1940 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from London, September 29, 1940 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from London, January 4, 1941 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Paris, Germany / Janet Flanner

A day in town / Rebecca West

Paddy of the R.A.F. / A.J. Liebling

Due credit to Hull / A.J. Liebling

The army life, my day / E.J. Kahn, Jr.

Fourteen for the navy / St. Clair McKelway

The spinner of bomb bay / St. Clair McKelway

The army life: somewhere in New Guinea / E.J. Kahn, Jr.

The army life: busy in Papua / E.J. Kahn, Jr.

Guerrilla from Erie, Pa. / A.J. Liebling

The foamy fields / A.J. Liebling

Mollie / A.J. Liebling

The escape of Mrs. Jeffries / Janet Flanner

Eighty-three days / Mark Murphy

Sealed ship / George Sessions Perry

The taking o f Ficarra / Walter Bernstein

Busy morning / Walter Bernstein

Anzio, February 10th / John Lardner

The mayor of Futani / John Lardner

Dumplings in our soup / Brendan Gill

Young man behind plexiglas / Brendan Gill

Survival / John Hersey

Letter from London, May 7, 1944 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from London, May 21, 1944 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from London, June 4, 1944 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from London, June 11, 1944 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Cross-channel trip / A.J. Liebling

Second man out / Guy Remington

Letter from Rome, July 7, 1944 / Daniel Lang

Letter from France, July 14, 1944 / A.J. Liebling

Letter from France, July 20, 1944 / A.J. Liebling

Letter from France, August 4, 1944 / A.J. Liebling

My dear little Louise / A.J. Liebling

Letter from Paris, September 1, 1944 / A.J. Liebling

The yellow flour / Daniel Lang

Letter from Florence, August 25, 1944 / Daniel Lang

Search for a battle / Walter Bernstein

Letter from Luxembourg, October 10, 1944 / David Lardner

The fires on Saipan / Eugene Kinkead

Lovely Americans / Robert Shaplen

The nicest fellows you ever met / Robert Lewis Taylor

The suspended drawing room / S.N. Behrman

The Duggans of Wapping / Mollie Panter-Downes

Persian Gulf command: the heat / Joel Sayre

Persian Gulf command: you don't fool around with a railroad / Joel Sayre

D-Day, Iwo Jima / John Lardner

Letter from London, May 12, 1945 / Mollie Panter-Downes

Letter from Rome, May 8, 1945 / Philip Hamburger

Okinawa / John Lardner

Letter from Berchtesgaden, June 1, 1945 / Philip Hamburger

Letter from Berlin, July 14, 1945 / Joel Sayre

Hiroshima / John Hersey.