Buy this book on-line HASTINGS**, MAX - Chosen, Edited and Introduced by: : SOLDIERS - GREAT STORIES OF WAR AND PEACELONDON.WILLIAM COLLINS/an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher's,2022. ISBN 9780008555566.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. FINE/FINE-. Almost as new. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,part-glossy, part-matt dw/dj divided in 2 glossy gold coloured horizontal bands one each to top+bottom of front panel with capitalised,black-lettered title at top edge and author's similarly coloured+lettered name to lower band respectively,2 matt red horizontal bands with capitalised,glossy white-lettered sub-title in two separate parts,above and beneath a matt white central horizontal band with b/w thumbnail various soldiers' illustrations.A matt red spine/backstrip with capitalised,glossy,gold-lettered part-title at its head and author's capitalised,glossy, white-lettered name; publisher's capitalised,matt white-lettered name and matt,white illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with matt red background with repepeated white central band from front,to rear top edge with matt white-lettered synopsis.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - removal of an adhesive label has partially removed the glossy laminate at dw/dj front corner but without too detrimentally affecting the top of last letter S of SOLDIERS.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without ageing/toning or foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips, appears unread apart from my collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,xpp-2-517pp [paginated] includes verso of Illustrations list/table,author's Introduction,350 assorted stories/contribs covering ancient and modern wars and individuals,16pp of historical+ contemporary b/w+colour illustrations and photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp182/83 and pp326/327 respectively,17pp of Sources and Acknowledgements,an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with author's published titles to its verso,a title page,a dedication with blank reverse,a Contents list/table also with a blank verso,and recto of Illustrations list/table.
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Visually the external appearance is still exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minimal,minor detraction described that affects a slightly higher grading but despite that,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for it's brightness,cleanliness and lack of other detracting faults. The 347 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 at 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 MacDonald Fraser.
Here also,are stories of the female 'abosi' fighters of Dahomey and heroic ambulance drivers of WW1,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 have retreated from the old notion of war as a sport or pastime,to acknowledge it as the supreme tragedy.
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 21stC,which some are already calling 'the Post-Heroic Age'.
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