I love to read about war and hope to find some kindred spirits. For several years I have participated in my friend Caroline's readalong at "Beauty is a Sleeping Cat". She is scaling back so I have decided to host a readalong of short war stories. I would like to thank the web site "Short Story Archive" for providing an outstanding list of titles that are easily available on the Internet. We will do one per month. At the end of the month I will offer my thoughts on the selection and hope to hear from you.
Here is the complete list:
- The Aviator- by Hornell Hart
- The Battle of Lake Borgne - by George Cary Eggleston
- The Boy Commander of the Camisards - by George Cary Eggleston
- British Gunners as Cave Dwellers - by Corporal E. H. Bean
- The Canoe Fight - by George Cary Eggleston
- Chasing a Major-General - by Frederic Remington
- The Colonel's Ideas, by Guy de Maupassant
- The Conscript, by Grace Greenwood
- The Crime of the Brigadier - by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Daisy-Chain of Bandoliers - by Private W. H. Cooperwaite
- The Duke's Reappearance - by Thomas Hardy
- The Glory of War - by M.B. Levick
- In the Shadow of the Mesquite - by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
- The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins - by Stephen Crane
- Lost Ground Regained - by Ralph D. Paine
- Mademoiselle Fifi - by Guy de Maupassant
- Mons and the Great Retreat - by Private J. Parkinson
- N.B. - by Joseph Hall
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - by Ambrose Bierce
- Scrapped: An Ignoble End to a Great Ship - by Mollie Kay Smith
- The Sergeant's Private Madhouse - by Stephen Crane
- A Soldier's Story - by Walter C. Beglau
- The Soldier's Wife - by Francis A. Duvilage
- Stories of the Trojan War - by Josephine Preston Peabody
- The Story of a Winter Campaign, by George Cary Eggleston
- The Strange-Looking Man, by Fanny Kemble Johnson
- Ten Fathoms Down - by Ralph D. Paine
- The Tomb of Heiri - by A. C. Benson
- A Tough Tussle, by Ambrose Bierce
- Two Obscure Heroes of the Revolutionary War, by George Cary Eggleston
- The Unseen Host - by Charles L. Warr
- War - by Sherwood Anderson
So first up is "The Aviator". Join in and chime in!
On "The Aviator": Decent for a very short short story. They loved twist endings back in the day. O. Henry style. This one could have used a flashback maybe.
ReplyDeleteI will try to join for a few. Espcially those very short ones and the more famous authors like Maupassant and Ambrose Bierce, although I've read them before.
ReplyDeleteThis is a longer project as it seems.
Thanks for joining when you can.
DeleteMy Dad was Walter C. Beglau who wrote A Soldiers Story. I found the story on line today not knowing it was "out there". This is crazy. Was his story found? Was it sent on? I'll probably never know.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. I can't wait to get to that story.
DeleteVery interesting. I can't wait to get to that story.
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