Soldiers : great stories of war and peace /
by Hastings, Max.
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BookPublisher: London : William Collins, 2021Description: x, 517 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780008454227 (hbk.) :; 0008454221 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 355.0092 HASSubject(s): Military history -- Anecdotes | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and Defence | United Kingdom, Great Britain | English | BCE period - Protohistory | 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 | True war & combat storiesSummary: 'Soldiers' is a collection of the very best stories about soldiers, brought together by the award-winning, bestselling historian Max Hastings. In these pages you will find heroes and cowards; triumphs, tragedies and comedies. 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.
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| 355.009 CAR Warfare in the medieval world | 355.009 DAV Military blunders | 355.009 JON Knight: | 355.0092 HAS Soldiers : great stories of war and peace / | 355.0092 JAR Long way home : love, life, death, and everything in between / | 355.0092 PAT Walk in my combat boots / | 355.0092 PER Heroes of the hour: brief moments of military glory |
Illustration on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Soldiers' is a collection of the very best stories about soldiers, brought together by the award-winning, bestselling historian Max Hastings. In these pages you will find heroes and cowards; triumphs, tragedies and comedies. 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.
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