Absent Without Leave — Heinrich Boll

Contains the novellas When the War Broke Out and When the War Was Over, originally published in German by Insel- Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1962 and subsequently published as Absent Without Leave by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Koln, 1964. The English translation first appeared in 1965 and was published in the US by McGraw-Hill. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)