Soldiers : great stories of war and peace
2021
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'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.
Main title:
Soldiers : great stories of war and peace / chosen, edited and introduced by Max Hastings.
Author:
Hastings, Max, editor
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2021.
Collation:
x, 517 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Illustration on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780008454227 (hbk)
Dewey class:
355.00922355.00922 HAS355.009
Local class:
355.00922
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3151202