'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 MacDonald 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'.
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