Binding: Hardcover
Description: A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle Compelling Daily Mail An unmissable read Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling gripping tales by many writers about men and women who have borne arms reflecting bestselling historian Max Hastings's lifetime of studying war. It rings the changes through the centuries between the heroic tragic and comic; the famous and the humble. The nearly 350 stories illustrate vividly what it is like to fight in wars to live and die as a warrior from Greek and Roman times through to recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here you will meet Jewish heroes of the Bible Rome's captain of the gate Queen Boudicca Joan of Arc Cromwell Wellington Napoleon's marshals Ulysses S. Grant George S. Patton and the modern SAS. There are tales of great writers who served in uniform including Cobbett and Tolstoy Edward Gibbon and Siegfried Sassoon Marcel Proust and Evelyn Waugh George Orwell and George Mac Donald Fraser. Here are also stories of the female abosi fighters of Dahomey and heroic ambulance drivers of World War I together with the new - age women soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The stories reflect a change of mood towards warfare through the ages: though nations and movements continue to inflict terrible violence upon each other most of humankind has retreated from the old notion of war as a sport or pastime to acknowledge it as the supreme tragedy. This is a book to inspire in turn fascination excitement horror amazement occasionally laughter. Max Hastings mingles respect for the courage of those who fight with compassion for those who become their victims above all civilians and especially in the twenty - first century which some are already calling the Post - Heroic Age .
Title: Soldiers Great Stories Of War And Peace
Author(s): Hastings Max
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Barcode: 9780008454227
Pages: 496 Pages
Publication Date: 5/17/2022
Category: Military History