The Book of War

Part I Thucydides: The Melian Dialogue Thucydides: The Final Sea Battle Xenophon: The Battle of Cunaxa and Death of Cyrus Xenophon: A Plundering Expedition Julius Caesar: First British Expedition Josephus: The Horrors of the Siege Usamah Ibn-Munqidh: An Arab-Syrian Gentleman Jean Froissart: The Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346 Jehan de Wavrin: A French Knight's Account of Agincourt Andrew Wheatcroft: The Fall of Constantinople Diego Hurtado de Mendoze: Such Botching, Disorder and Chaos Francesco Balbi di Correggio: The Siege of Malta Inga Clendinnen: Aztecs George Peele (1558-1596): Farewell to Arms Father Paul Ragueneau: An Attack by Iroquois Warriors William Dunbar: Braddock at the Monongahela Robert Southey (1774-1843): The Battle of Blenheim Anna Myers: The Revolution Remembered (1) John Scott of Amwell (1730-1793): The Drum Jacob Zimmerman: The Revolution Remembered (2) David Crockett: Davy Crockett John D. Hunter: Captivity Among the Indians Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): Hohenlinden

Part II Sergeant William Lawrence: Fugitive and Recruit 1804-6 Sergeant William Lawrence: Badajoz March-April 1812 A Gentleman Volunteer: The Battle of Vitorio Helen Roeder: Captain Roeder Victor Hugo (1802-1885): Russia 1812 Private Wheeler: The Letters of Private Wheeler Duke of Wellington: Wellington's Waterloo Despatch James Bodell: A Soldier's View of Empire Henry Clifford: Clifford in the Crimea Colin Frederick Campbell: Letters from Camp W. H. Fitchett: The Relief of Lucknow Lieutenant-Colonel Fremantle: The Fremantle Diary Stephen Crane (1871-1900): War is Kind Elizabeth B. Custer: General Custer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): Tommy Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, 1879: Four eyewitness accounts Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938): Vitaï Lampada

Part III Stephen Graham: How the News of War Came to a Village on the Chinese Frontier Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' Erwin Rommel: Infantry Attacks Compton Mackenzie: Gallipoli Memories Sidney Rogerson: Twelve Days John McCrae (1872-1918): In Flanders Fields John Glubb: A Soldier's Diary of the Great War Brigadier-General E.L. Spears: Prelude to Victory W.B. Yeats: An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Robert Graves: Goodbye to All That Ernest Hemingway: Wounded (1) Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967): The Hero Gerald Uloth: Riding to War Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967): The General Isaac Babel: Red Cavalry Wilfred Owen (1893-1918): Anthem for Doomed Youth John Masters: Bugles and a Tiger Alexander Stahlberg: Bounden Duty Tim Bishop: One Young Soldier George Orwell: Wounded (2) Bruce Shand: Previous Engagements Winston Churchill: BBC Broadcast, London, 19 May 1940 Stuart Milner-Barry: Codebreakers Peter Cremer: U-333 Hugh Dundas: Flying Start George Kennard: Loopy Studs Terkel: The Good War Obituary: David Stirling Keith Douglas (1920-44): Aristocrats Alexander Stahlberg: Bounden Duty (2) Geyr von Schweppenburg: On the Other Side of the Hill Marie-Louise Osmont: Normandy Diary Ernie Pyle: Battle and Breakout in Normandy David Smiley: Albanian Assignment Franklin Lindsay: Beacons in the Night Alexander Stahlberg: Bounden Duty (3) George MacDonald Fraser: Quartered Safe Out Here Eric Lomax: The Railway Man William Laurence: Bombing Nagasaki C.W. Bowman: Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning James Fenton: The Fall of Saigon Andy McNab: Bravo Two Zero

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