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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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