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This collection copyright © 1982 by the Estate of Olivia Manning
First published in Great Britain as The Levant Trilogy in 1982 by Penguin Books, Ltd; published in Great Britain in paperback in 2003 by Phoenix
“The Danger Tree” copyright © 1977 by the Estate of Olivia Manning First published in Great Britain in 1977 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson; first published in the United States in 1977 by Atheneum Publishers
“The Battle Lost and Won” copyright © 1978 by the Estate of Olivia Manning First published in Great Britain in 1978 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson; first published in the United States in 1979 by Atheneum Publishers
“The Sum of Things” copyright © 1980 by the Estate of Olivia Manning First published in Great Britain in 1980 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson; first published in the United States in 1981 by Atheneum Publishers
Introduction copyright © 2014 by Anthony Sattin
All rights reserved.
Cover photograph: George Rodger, Graves of the crew of a British bomber shot down in June 1941; © George Rodger/Magnum Photospaper.
Cover design: Katy Homans
The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:
Manning, Olivia.
[Levant trilogy]
Fortunes of war : the Levant trilogy / by Olivia Manning ; introduction by Anthony Sattin.
pages cm. — (New York Review Books classics)
ISBN 978-1-59017-721-1 (pbk.)
I. World War, 1939–1945—Egypt—Fiction. I. Manning, Olivia. Danger tree. II. Manning, Olivia. Battle lost and won. III. Manning, Olivia. Sum of things. IV. Title. V. Title: Levant trilogy.
PR6063.A384L48 2014
823'.914—dc23
2013048995
ISBN 978-1-59017-736-5
v1.0
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