Bibliograph

Soldiers, great stories of war and peace, chosen, edited and introduced by Max Hastings

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Soldiers, great stories of war and peace, chosen, edited and introduced by Max Hastings

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Soldiers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

chosen, edited and introduced by Max Hastings

Sub title

great stories of war and peace

Summary

It illustrates, mostly through people's own words, what it's been like to fight in wars, to live and die as a warrior, from Greek and Roman times through to today's Iraq and Afghanistan. The characters include the Black Prince and Cromwell, Wellington at Waterloo, Siegfried Sassoon at the Somme, George Orwell in the Spanish Civil War and Evelyn Waugh as a commando. But there are also Americans, Frenchmen, Israelis, Russians, not to mention the women warriors of Dahomey, Queen Boudicca and the women who serve today in the US Marines. There are more than 300 stories in all, and an astounding variety of soldiers' experiences through the ages. Many have been responsible for wonderful achievements but a few, also, for dreadful crimes. Some relate horrors, while others tell terrific jokes

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