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The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes
Sir Max . Ed(S): Hastings
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Description for The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes
paperback. Packed with tales of the heroic, comic, eccentric, and tragic, this collection fully captures the flavour of barrack life and enlists the reader on campaigns as distant in time as Caesar's Gallic wars and the siege of Port Stanley during the Falklands conflict. Editor(s): Hastings, Sir Max. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 688.
If anecdotes are marginal notes on the pages of history, these will delight any reader who has ever been moved or entertained by the condition of the soldier. Few fields of human endeavor have inspired so many memorable anecdotes as warfare, from the Bible and Livy through Gibbon and Froissart, to the imperial wars of the nineteenth century and the world conflicts of the twentieth. This collection of is principally concerned with American and British conflicts, with, as the author says, "occasional forays among the ranks of foreign armies"--notably the Greeks, the Romans, and Napoleon's veterans. Hastings has sought ... Read more
If anecdotes are marginal notes on the pages of history, these will delight any reader who has ever been moved or entertained by the condition of the soldier. Few fields of human endeavor have inspired so many memorable anecdotes as warfare, from the Bible and Livy through Gibbon and Froissart, to the imperial wars of the nineteenth century and the world conflicts of the twentieth. This collection of is principally concerned with American and British conflicts, with, as the author says, "occasional forays among the ranks of foreign armies"--notably the Greeks, the Romans, and Napoleon's veterans. Hastings has sought ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195205282
SKU
V9780195205282
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