Her war story: twentieth-century women write about war

Sing a song of war-time / Nina Macdonald

The cordite makers / Rebecca West

from Chronicle of youth: the war diary, 1913-1917 / Vera Brittain

from Fighting France: from Dunkerque to Belport / Edith Wharton

Conspiracy from The forbidden zone / Mary Borden

Women and wives from The backwash of war: the human wreckage of the battlefield as witnessed by an American hospital nurse / Ellen La Motte

Verdun, December-January, 1915 / Colette

from Not so quiet...: stepdaughters of war / Helen Zenna Smith

A honeymoon...vive l'Amerique / Dorothy Canfield Fisher

In the stadium / Amy Lowell

from One of ours / Willa Cather

from It's a great war! / Mary Lee

from Shadow-shapes: the journal of a wounded woman / Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant

from The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein

from The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz / Käthe Kollwitz

The cenotaph / Charlotte Mew

The fly / Katherine Mansfield

To my brother killed: Haumont Wood: October, 1918 / Louise Bogan

1919 from Sula / Toni Morrison

from Peace and bread in time of war / Jane Addams

from My part in a changing world / Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence

Apostrophe to man / Edna St. Vincent Millay

High explosives for everyone / Martha Gellhorn

from My shadow in the sun / Frances Davis

Soldiers of the republic / Dorothy Parker

Say that we saw Spain die / Edna St. Vincent Millay

We Jews / Gertrud Kolmar

from Three guineas / Virginia Woolf

from Let the record speak / Dorothy Thompson

from New faith / Ding Ling

The first long range artillery fire on Leningrad / Anna Akhmatova

from The danger tree / Olivia Manning

Oh, madam / Elizabeth Bowen

from The days of Mars: a memoir, 1940-1946 / Bryher

Ancient wisdom speaks / H.D.

from All the brave promises / Mary Lee Settle

from The ordeal of Elizabeth Vaughan: a wartime diary of the Philippines / Elizabeth Vaughan

from War in Val d'Orcia / Iris Origo

from The past is myself / Christabel Bielenberg

from Letters from Westerbork / Etty Hillesum

Friendly meetings from Auschwitz: true tales from a grotesque land / Sara Nomberg-Przytyk

Weiter from Auschwitz and after / Charlotte Delbo

from History: a novel / Elsa Morante

Evacuation ; On the bus ; Harmony at the fair grounds ; Curfew ; In the outhouse ; Inside news / Mitsuye Yamada

Blind Chinese soldiers / Hirabayashi Taiko

The scars remain / Kikue Tada

from Landlocked / Doris Lessing

from The wild place / Kathryn Hulme

Fife's house / Kay Boyle

Gay chaps at the bar / Gwendolyn Brooks

from War in Korea / Marguerite Higgins

A new kind of war / Martha Gelhorn

from Hanoi / Mary McCarthy

That country / Grace Paley

The Vietnamese mother / Huong Tram

from Sensing the enemy / Lady Borton

At first I was given centuries / Margaret Atwood

Kathe Kolwitz / Muriel Rukeyser

Prayer for continuation / Susan Griffin

El Salvador / Karla Ramirez

from The Downing Street years / Margaret Thatcher

from A woman at war : storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines / Molly Moore

Song of becoming / Fadwa Tuqan

One cannot kill a baby twice / Dahlia Ravikovitch

No man's land / Meena Alexander

from Mothers and shadows / Marta Traba

Madalena returned from captivity / Lina Magaia

from The gates of ivory / Margaret Drabble.