Declarations of War
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- Item Code: 15126
- Item Ref: D530545
- Author: Len Deighton
- Publisher: Harper Collins
- Edition: 1st
- Isbn : 9780586038116
- 13 EAN: 9780586038116
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.
| Book specification | |
|---|---|
| Author | Len Deighton |
| Publisher | Harper Collins |
| Edition | 1st |
| Isbn | 9780586038116 |
| 13 EAN | 9780586038116 |
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