Short stories from WWI and WW2

The Account of Sergeant Arthur Green, 11th (Service) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. The Somme (The Crushing Weight of Industrial Warfare)

The story is a gritty, visceral account of industrial-scale slaughter during World War I, told through the dry, pragmatic voice of Sergeant Arthur Green. The narrative focuses on the physical and sensory overload of the trenches, stripping away any lingering romanticism of Edwardian patriotism

The Ledger of Saint-Denis (The Cold Architecture of Paranoia)

The second story is a tense, cinematic psychological thriller set in Nazi-occupied Paris on the eve of D-Day, experienced through Geneviève Laurent ("Clara"), a woman whose survival relies entirely on her ability to blend into the mundane fabric of a defeated city.