Note: Originally published in Italian, as "La Guerra", in Tempo Presente; first published in English in the Australian newspaper The Bulletin, May 5, 1962 with the title "The War"; reprinted in the American magazine Short Story International, November 1963 also with the title "The War"; collected in Djilas' The Leper and Other Stories (1964) with the title "War". The story can be read at the web page linked above (pp. 30-32).