‘The Bowmen’ from The Collected Arthur Machen by Arthur Machen, copyright © 1988 by The Estate of Arthur Machen. Published by Gerald Duckworth. Reprinted by permission of A. M. Heath & Co. Ltd.
‘Private Meyrick–Company Idiot’ from Men, Women and Guns by ‘Sapper’ Herman Cyril McNeile. Published by Hodder & Stoughton.
‘A Trade Report Only’ from Fiery Particles by C. E. Montague. Published by Chatto & Windus.
‘Victory’ from Roads to Glory by Richard Aldington, copyright © 1930 by The Estate of Richard Aldington. Published by Chatto & Windus. Reprinted by permission of Rosica Colin Ltd.
‘Heroes’ by Anne Perry from Murder and Obsession, ed. Otto Penzler, copyright © 1999 by Anne Perry. Published by Orion. Reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Blind’ from The Forbidden Zone by Mary Borden, published by William Heinemann. Reprinted by permission of Duff Hart-Davis.
‘An Indiscreet Journey’ from Something Childish and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield. Published by Constable. Reprinted by permission of Constable & Robinson Ltd.
‘The Tale’ from the Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad, Vol. 2, by Joseph Conrad. Published by Pickering.
‘Chanson Triste’ by Arthur Walter Wells from Best Short Stories of 1925, ed. Edward J. O’Brien. Published by Jonathan Cape.
‘His Last Bow’ by Arthur Conan Doyle from Strand Magazine.
‘Giulia Lazzari’ from Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham. Published by William Heinemann. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
‘The Loathly Opposite’ from The Runagates Club by John Buchan, copyright © 1928 by The Estate of John Buchan. Published by Thomas Nelson. Reprinted by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd.
‘Mary Postgate’ from A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling. Published by Macmillan.
‘Them Others’ by Stacy Aumonier from Great Short Stories of the War, ed. H. C. Minchin. Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode.
‘Told by the Schoolmaster’ from Forsytes, Pendyces and Others by John Galsworthy. Published by William Heinemann.
‘Tickets, Please’ from England, My England by D. H. Lawrence. Published by Thomas Seltzer.
‘Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself’ from Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall. Published by William Heinemann. Reprinted by permission of Jonathan Lovat Dickson/A. M. Heath & Co. Ltd.
‘Nobody’ from The Thirteen Travellers by Hugh Walpole. Published by Hutchinson.
‘Once a Hero’ by Harold Brighouse from Best British Short Stories of 1922, eds. Edward J. O’Brien and John Cournos. Published by Longmans Green.
‘The Fly’ from The Dove’s Nest by Katherine Mansfield. Published by Constable. Reprinted by permission of Constable & Robinson Ltd.
‘The Casualty List’ from Truth Is Not Sober by Winifred Holtby. Published by Collins. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
‘Christmas Truce’ from Collected Short Stories by Robert Graves, copyright © 1962 by The Estate of Robert Graves. Published by Cassell. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Ltd.
‘The First Year of My Life’ by Muriel Spark from The Penguin Book of British Comic Short Stories, ed. Patricia Craig, copyright © 1975 by The Estate of Muriel Spark. Published by Viking. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd.
‘Company’ by Robert Grossmith from The Minerva Book of Short Stories 3, eds. Giles Gordon and David Hughes, copyright © 1989 by Robert Grossmith. Published by Mandarin. Reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Evermore’ from Cross Channel by Julian Barnes, copyright © 1996 by Julian Barnes. Published by Jonathan Cape (UK) and Alfred A. Knopf (USA). Reprinted by permission of Jonathan Cape, an imprint of The Random House Group Ltd, and by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders. The publishers would be interested to hear from any copyright holders not here acknowledged, and will be pleased to rectify any mistakes or omissions in subsequent editions.
The editors wish to thank Adam Freudenheim and Mariateresa Boffo at Penguin for making this project possible and supporting us over the long months of preparing this book. Professor Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, Professor Wolfgang Hochbruck and Mr Taff Gillingham provided valuable hints for the annotations. We also thank Dr Stefanie Lethbridge, Christina Spittel, Johanna Kunze and Nikolaus Reusch for assisting with researching the notes and reading early stages of the manuscript.