Declarations of War (Paperback, New Ed)

A collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death. Includes a new fourteenth story which appears here for the very first time. Len Deighton's only collection of shorter fiction, this dazzling array of stories spans twenty-three centuries of warfare. From Hannibal's march on Rome - when strange, moving objects terrorise the troops of one of the toughest and most skilful armies in history - to the efforts of a belittled Civil War general to get his men to face the Confederate army; to the dawn skies above an artillery-blasted French battle-line where a dogfight unfolds, to Vietnam; where two lost American soldiers stumble across an abandoned military airfield. A bonus story, new to this edition, reveals a very different kind of war, played out in the present-day Mexican borderlands. Each story in Declarations of War explores the effects of war upon man's character, how it pushes him to act in a dehumanized, machine-like way, often leading to extraordinary deeds, both good and ill. It portrays human conflict through a series of devastating experiences and shows how great deeds are often but the smallest thread in the large fabric of war.

General

Imprint:	HarperCollinsPublishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2010
Authors:	Len Deighton
Dimensions:	178 x 111 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Mass Market
Pages:	288
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-586-03811-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > General
LSN:	0-586-03811-6
Barcode:	9780586038116

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