{"product_id":"the-book-of-war-isbn-9780140296556","title":"The Book of War","description":"\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed military historian John Keegan’s anthology of war  writing from 25 centuries of battle\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn  The Book of War, John Keegan marshals a formidable host of war writings to  chronicle the evolution of Western warfare through the voice of the most  eloquent participants—from Thucydides’ classic account of ancient Greek phalanx  warfare to a blow-by-blow description of ground fighting against the Iraqi  troops in Kuwait during the Gulf War. Keegan gathers more than eighty  selections, including Caesar’s Commentaries on the Roman invasion of Britain;  the French Knight Jehan de Wavrin at the battle of Agincourt; Davy Crockett in  the war against the Creek; Wellington’s dispatch on Waterloo; Hemingway after  Caporetto; and Ernie Pyle at Normandy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The best military historian of our generation.” –Tom Clancy\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A  monumental piece of literary military history.” –Chicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA  brilliantly edited and comprehensive anthology.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book  Review\u003c\/i\u003e.Editor's Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThucydides: The Melian Dialogue\u003cbr\u003eThucydides: The Final Sea Battle\u003cbr\u003eXenophon: The Battle of Cunaxa and Death of Cyrus\u003cbr\u003eXenophon: A Plundering Expedition\u003cbr\u003eJulius Caesar: First British Expedition\u003cbr\u003eJosephus: The Horrors of the Siege\u003cbr\u003eUsamah Ibn-Munqidh: An Arab-Syrian Gentleman\u003cbr\u003eJean Froissart: The Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346\u003cbr\u003eJehan de Wavrin: A French Knight's Account of Agincourt\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Wheatcroft: The Fall of Constantinople\u003cbr\u003eDiego Hurtado de Mendoze: Such Botching, Disorder and Chaos\u003cbr\u003eFrancesco Balbi di Correggio: The Siege of Malta\u003cbr\u003eInga Clendinnen: Aztecs\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Peele (1558-1596): Farewell to Arms\u003cbr\u003eFather Paul Ragueneau: An Attack by Iroquois Warriors\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Dunbar: Braddock at the Monongahela\u003cbr\u003eRobert Southey (1774-1843): The Battle of Blenheim\u003cbr\u003eAnna Myers: The Revolution Remembered (1)\u003cbr\u003eJohn Scott of Amwell (1730-1793): The Drum\u003cbr\u003eJacob Zimmerman: The Revolution Remembered (2)\u003cbr\u003eDavid Crockett: Davy Crockett\u003cbr\u003eJohn D. Hunter: Captivity Among the Indians\u003cbr\u003eThomas Campbell (1777-1844): Hohenlinden\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSergeant William Lawrence: Fugitive and Recruit 1804-6\u003cbr\u003eSergeant William Lawrence: Badajoz March-April 1812\u003cbr\u003eA Gentleman Volunteer: The Battle of Vitorio\u003cbr\u003eHelen Roeder: Captain Roeder\u003cbr\u003eVictor Hugo (1802-1885): Russia 1812\u003cbr\u003ePrivate Wheeler: The Letters of Private Wheeler\u003cbr\u003eDuke of Wellington: Wellington's Waterloo Despatch\u003cbr\u003eJames Bodell: A Soldier's View of Empire\u003cbr\u003eHenry Clifford: Clifford in the Crimea\u003cbr\u003eColin Frederick Campbell: Letters from Camp\u003cbr\u003eW. H. Fitchett: The Relief of Lucknow\u003cbr\u003eLieutenant-Colonel Fremantle: The Fremantle Diary\u003cbr\u003eStephen Crane (1871-1900): War is Kind\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth B. Custer: General Custer\u003cbr\u003eRudyard Kipling (1865-1936): Tommy\u003cbr\u003eIsandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, 1879: Four eyewitness accounts\u003cbr\u003eSir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938): Vitaï Lampada\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Graham: How the News of War Came to a Village on the Chinese Frontier\u003cbr\u003eThomas Hardy (1840-1928): In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'\u003cbr\u003eErwin Rommel: Infantry Attacks\u003cbr\u003eCompton Mackenzie: Gallipoli Memories\u003cbr\u003eSidney Rogerson: Twelve Days\u003cbr\u003eJohn McCrae (1872-1918): In Flanders Fields\u003cbr\u003eJohn Glubb: A Soldier's Diary of the Great War\u003cbr\u003eBrigadier-General E.L. Spears: Prelude to Victory\u003cbr\u003eW.B. Yeats: An Irish Airman Foresees His Death\u003cbr\u003eRobert Graves: Goodbye to All That\u003cbr\u003eErnest Hemingway: Wounded (1)\u003cbr\u003eSiegfried Sassoon (1886-1967): The Hero\u003cbr\u003eGerald Uloth: Riding to War\u003cbr\u003eSiegfried Sassoon (1886-1967): The General\u003cbr\u003eIsaac Babel: Red Cavalry\u003cbr\u003eWilfred Owen (1893-1918): Anthem for Doomed Youth\u003cbr\u003eJohn Masters: Bugles and a Tiger\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Stahlberg: Bounden Duty\u003cbr\u003eTim Bishop: One Young Soldier\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Orwell: Wounded (2)\u003cbr\u003eBruce Shand: Previous Engagements\u003cbr\u003eWinston Churchill: BBC Broadcast, London, 19 May 1940\u003cbr\u003eStuart Milner-Barry: Codebreakers\u003cbr\u003ePeter Cremer: U-333\u003cbr\u003eHugh Dundas: Flying Start\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Kennard: Loopy\u003cbr\u003eStuds Terkel: The Good War\u003cbr\u003eObituary: David Stirling\u003cbr\u003eKeith Douglas (1920-44): Aristocrats\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Stahlberg: Bounden Duty (2)\u003cbr\u003eGeyr von Schweppenburg: On the Other Side of the Hill\u003cbr\u003eMarie-Louise Osmont: Normandy Diary\u003cbr\u003eErnie Pyle: Battle and Breakout in Normandy\u003cbr\u003eDavid Smiley: Albanian Assignment\u003cbr\u003eFranklin Lindsay: Beacons in the Night\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Stahlberg: Bounden Duty (3)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge MacDonald Fraser: Quartered Safe Out Here\u003cbr\u003eEric Lomax: The Railway Man\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Laurence: Bombing Nagasaki\u003cbr\u003eC.W. Bowman: Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning\u003cbr\u003eJames Fenton: The Fall of Saigon\u003cbr\u003eAndy McNab: Bravo Two Zero\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSources and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Authors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (\u003c\/b\u003e1934–2012), was one of the  most distinguished contemporary military historians and was for many  years the senior lecturer at Sandhurst (the British Royal Military  Academy) and the defense editor of the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e (London). Keegan was the author of numerous books including \u003ci\u003eThe Face of Battle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mask of Command\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Admiralty\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Six Armies in Normandy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e, and was a fellow at the Royal Society of Literature.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301701964005,"sku":"NP9780140296556","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140296556.jpg?v=1767738486","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-book-of-war-isbn-9780140296556","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}