Soldiers: Great Stories Of War And Peace Max Hastings William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

‘A Gripping New Collection From Max Hastings That Puts You At The Heart Of Battle … Compelling’ Daily Mail ‘An Unmissable Read’ Sunday Times Soldiers Is A Very Personal Gathering Sparkling Tales By Many Writers About Men And Women Who Have Borne Arms Reflecting Bestselling Historian Hastings’s Lifetime Studying War It Rings Changes Through Centuries Between Heroic Tragic Comic Famous Humble Nearly 350 Stories Illustrate Vividly What Like To Fight In Wars Live Die As Warrior Greek Roman Recent Conflicts Iraq Afghanistan Here Will Meet Jewish Heroes Bible Rome’s Captain Gate Queen Boudicca Joan Arc Cromwell Wellington Napoleon’s Marshals Ulysses S Grant George Patton Modern Sas There Are Great Served Uniform Including Cobbett Tolstoy Edward Gibbon Siegfried Sassoon Marcel Proust Evelyn Waugh Orwell Macdonald Fraser Also Female ‘Abosi’ Fighters Dahomey Ambulance Drivers World I Together With New-Age Reflect Change Mood Towards Warfare Ages: Though Nations Movements Continue Inflict Terrible Violence Upon Each Other Most Humankind Has Retreated Old Notion Sport Or Pastime Acknowledge Supreme Tragedy This Book Inspire Turn Fascination Excitement Horror Amazement Occasionally Laughter Mingles Respect For Courage Those Compassion Become Their Victims Above All Civilians Especially Twenty-First Century Which Some Already Calling ‘The Post-Heroic Age’ Σελίδες: 496 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0708 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm