This edition contains Crane's best stories dealing with wars and the military. The extraordinary power of imagination is more wonderful than that of Defoe. It is in dialogue that he is at his strongest, for in this the words are used as the soldiers would have used them.
Contents:
The Little Regiment
Three Miraculous Soldiers
A Mystery Of Heroism
An Indiana Campaign
A Grey Sleeve
The Veteran
The Price of the Harness
The Lone Charge Of William B. Perkins
The Clan Of No-Name
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
The Revenge of the Adolphus
The Sergeant's Private Madhouse
Virtue in War
Marines Signalling Under Fire At Guantanamo
This Majestic Lie War Memories
The Second Generation