Her war story : twentieth-century women write about war / edited by Sayre P. Sheldon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and index.

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.