An edition of The Book of War
(1999)
The book of war
by John Keegan
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Acclaimed historian John Keegan brings together an amazing array of war writings, largely drawn from the protagonists themselves or firsthand accounts of the battles they describe. Includes descriptions by Caesar, the Duke of Wellington, Ernest Hemingway, and others.
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The Book of War: 25 Centuries of Great War Writing
October 31, 2000, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
0140296557 9780140296556
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Table of Contents
The Melian dialogue / Thucydides
The final sea battle / Thucydides
The battle of Cunaxa and death of Cyrus / Xenophon
A plundering expedition / Xenophon
First British expedition / Julius Caesar
The horrors of the seige / Josephus
An Arab-Syrian gentleman / Usamah Ibn-Munqidh
the battle of Crecy, 26 August 1346 / Jean Froissart
A French knight's account of Agincourt / Jehan de Wavrin
The fall of Constantinople / Andrew Wheatcroft
Such botching, disorder and chaos / Diego Hurtado de Mendoze
The siege of Malta / Francesco Balbi di Correggio
Aztecs / Inga Clendinnen
Farewell to arms / George Peele (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 (1) / Anna Meyers
The drum / John Scott of Amwell (1730-1793)
The revolution remembered (2) / Jacob Zimmerman
Davy Crockett / Davy Crockett
Captivity among the Indians / John D. HUnter
Hohenlinden / Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
(cont.) 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
Russian 1812 / Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
The letter of Private Wheeler / Private Wheeler
Wellington's Waterloo despatch / Duke of Wellington
A soldier's view of empire / James Bodell
Cliffore in the crimea / Henry Clifford
Letter from camp / Colin Frederick
The relief of Lucknow / W. H. Fitchett
The Fremantle diary / Lieutenant-Colonel Fremantle
War is kind / Stephan Crane (1871-1936)
General Custer / Elizabeth B. Custer
Tommy / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Four eyewitness accounts / Isandhlwana and Rorke's drift, 1879
Vitai Lampada / Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)
(cont.) 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 (1) / Ernest Hemmingway
The hero / Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Riding to war / Geral Uloth
The General / Sigfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
(cont.) Red cavalry / Isaac Babel
Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Bugles and a tiger / John Masters
Bounden duty (1) / 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
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
Albanian assignment / David Smiley
Beacons in the night / Franklin Lindsay
Bounden duty (3) / Alexander Stahlberg
Quartered safe out here / George MacDonal Fraser
The railway man / Eric Lomax
Bombing Nagasaki / William Lawrence
Red thunder, tropic lightning / C. W. Bowman
The fall of Saigon / James Fenton
Bravo two zero / Andy McNab.
Edition Notes
Originally published: New York : Viking, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [468]-476) and indexes.
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