On the Yankee Station

This article is about the short story collection. For the Vietnam War operations site, see Yankee Station.

On the Yankee Station
First edition (UK)
AuthorWilliam Boyd
Cover artistCraig Dodd
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHamish Hamilton (UK)
William Morrow (US)
Publication date
1981 (UK), 1982 (US)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint & eBook
Pages186
ISBN0-241-10426-2
823'.914[F]

On the Yankee Station is a short story collection by William Boyd. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa was published in 1981; this collection was published later that same year,[1] and includes two stories featuring Morgan Leafy, the anti-hero of the novel.[2] The title comes from one of the stories which is set at Yankee Station an operations centre for the US Navy during the Vietnam War. The collection has been a set text for English A-Level.[3]

  1. ^ "William Boyd".
  2. ^ Back cover of 1988 Penguin edition ISBN 978-0-14-009347-6
  3. ^ http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Withering-heights-384347/ [dead link‍]