title: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
author:  Ambrose Bierce 
description: <b>Tom Quirk</b> is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's <b><i>Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches</i></b> (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's <b><i>Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories</i></b> (2000) and co-editor of <b><i>The Portable American Realism Reader</i></b> (1997). His other books include <b><i>Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn</i></b> (1993), <b><i>Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction</i></b> (1997) and <b><i>Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination</i></b> (2001).
zlib_text: **Also by Brad Taylor**
  
   _One Rough Man_
  
   _All Necessary Force_
  
   _Enemy of Mine_
  
   _The Widow’s Strike_
  
   _The Polaris Protocol_
  
   _Days of Rage_
  
   _No Fortunate Son_
  
   _The Insider Threat_
  
   _The Forgotten Soldier_
  
   _Ghosts of War_
  
   _Ring of Fire_
  
   _Operator Down_
  
   **Other Taskforce Stories**
  
   _The Callsign_
  
   _Gut Instinct_
  
   _Black Flag_
  
   _The Dig_
  
   _The Recruit_
  
   _The Target_
  
   **The Infiltrator**
  
  A Taskforce Story, Featuring an Excerpt from _Operator Down_
  
  Brad Taylor
  
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