The book of war / edited by John Keegan.

Contributor Keegan, John, 1934-2012.

Imprint:New York : Viking, 1999.

Descriptionxix, 492 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:PART I. The Melian Dialogue / Thucydides -- The final sea battle / Thucydides -- The battle of Cunaxa and death of Cyrus / Xenophon -- A plundering expedition / Xenophon -- First British expedidtion / Julius Caesar -- The horrors of the siege / Josephus -- An Arab-Syrian gentleman / Usamah Ibn-Munquidh -- The battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346 / Jean Froissart -- A French knight's account of Agincourt / Jehan de Wavrin -- The fall of Constantinople / Andrew Wheatcdroft -- Such botching, disorder and chaos / Diego Hurtado de Mendoze -- The siege of Malta / Francesco Balbi di Correggio -- Aztecs / Inga Clendinnen -- Farewell to arms / George Peel (1558-1596) -- An attack by Iroquois warriors / Father Paul Ragueneau -- Braddock at the Monongahela / William Dunbar -- The battle of Blenheim / Robert Southey (1774-1843) -- The Revolution remembered (I) / Anna Myers -- The drum / John Scott of Amwell (1730-1793) -- The Revolution remembered (II) / Jacob Zimmerman -- Davy Crockett / David Crockett -- Captivity among the Indians / John D. Hunter -- Hohenlinden / Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- PART II. Fugitive and recruit 1804-6 / Sergeant William Lawrence -- Badajoz March-April 1812 / Sergeant William Lawrence -- The battle of Vitorio / a gentleman volunteer -- Captain Roeder / Helen Roeder -- Russia 1812 / Victor Hugo (1802-1885) -- The letters of Private Wheeler / Private Wheeler -- Wellington's Waterloo despatch / Duke of Wellington -- A soldier's view of empire / James Bodell -- Clifford in the Crimea / Henry Clifford -- Letters from camp / Colin Frederick Campbell -- The relief of Lucknow / W.H. Fitchett -- The Fremantle diary / Lieutenant-Colonel Fremantle -- War is kind / Stephen Crane (1871-1900) -- General Custer / Elizabeth B. Custer -- Tommy / Rudyard Kipling (1875-1936) -- Four eyewitness accounts / Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, 1879 -- Vitaï Llampada / Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) -- PART III. How the news of war came to a village on the Chinese frontier / Stephen Graham -- In time of 'the breaking of nations' / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Infantry attacks / Erwin Rommel -- Gallipoli memories / Compton Mackenzie -- Twelve days / Sidney Rogerson -- In Flanders Fields / John McCrae (1872-1918) -- A soldier's diary of the Great War / John Glubb -- Prelude to victory / Brigadier-General E.L. Spears -- An Irish airman foresees his death / W.B. Yeats -- Goodbye to all that / Robert Graves -- Wounded (I) / Ernrest Hemingway -- The hero / Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) -- Riding to war / Gerald Uloth -- The General / Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) -- Red cavalary / Isaac Babel -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) -- Bugles and a tiger / John Masters -- Bounden duty (I) / Alexander Stahlberg -- One young soldier / Tim Bishop -- Wounded (2) / George Orwell -- Previous engagements / Bruce Shand -- BBC Broadcast,, London, 19 May 1940 / Winston Churchill -- Codebreakers / Stuart Milner-Barry -- U-333 / Peter Cremer -- Flying start / Hugh Dundas -- Loopy / George Kennard -- The Good War / Studs Terkel -- David Stirling / obituary -- Aristocrats / Keith Douglas (1920-44) -- Bounden duty (2) / Alexander Stahlberg -- On the other side of the hill / Geyr von Schweppenburg -- Normandy diary / Marie-Louise Osmont -- Battle and breakout in Normany / Ernie Pyle -- Albanian assignment / David Smiley -- Beacons in the night / Franklin Lindsay -- Bounden duty (3) / Alexander Stahlberg -- Quartered safe outhere / George MacDonald Fraser -- The railway man / Eric Lomax -- Bombing Nagasaki / William Laurence -- Red thunder, tropic lightning / C.W. Bowman -- The fall of Saigon / James Fenton -- Brave Two Zero / Andy McNab.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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