Best books … chosen by Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer’s latest novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.­ Below, the author of The Missing of the Somme chooses his

The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn (Atlantic Monthly Press, $18). From the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and beyond—a superb selection of Gellhorn’s best-known pieces, including the ­classic report from an RAF bomber station in 1943.

The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Vintage, $14). Dispatches from the Polish foreign correspondent who spent 30 years witnessing coups, revolutions, and wars. Kapuscinski was one of the greatest writers of the second half of the 20th century, and this collection has everything: stunning immediacy, edge-of-the-seat danger, philosophical digressions, and endless compassion.

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