The strong demand for short-form reading material resulted in ASE collections of stories and verse which existed as such in no other form. These specially prepared anthologies were popular: short stories could be as brief as a magazine article, a valuable attribute to a service personnel on the move. ASE short story collections ranged from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe to the short stories of Hemingway.
There were fewer ASE collections of poetry than of short stories, but the books selected were just as eclectic, ranging from Carl Sandburg to the creatively titled A Wartime Whitman.
Sherwood Anderson. Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson. Armed Services Edition [Q-9]. UVa.
Ernest Hemingway. Selected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Armed Services Edition [K-9]. UVa
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Gray Champion and Other Tales. Armed Services Edition [863]. UVa
Edgar Allan Poe. Selected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Armed Services Edition [767]. UVa
A. E. Housman. Selected Poems of A. E. Housman. Armed Services Edition [M-1]. UVa
A Wartime Whitman. Edited by Major William A. Aiken. Armed Services Edition [S-1]. UVa
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Paul Revere's Ride and Other Poems. Armed Services Edition [704]. UVa
Carl Sandburg. Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg. Armed Services Edition [N-6]
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems. Armed Services Edition [658]. UVa