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The Penguin Book of War (1999)

by John Keegan (Editor)

Other authors: A Gentleman Volunteer (Contributor), Isaac Babel (Contributor), Francesco Balbi di Correggio (Contributor), Tim Bishop (Contributor), James Bodell (Contributor)69 more, C. W. Bowman (Contributor), Julius Caeser (Contributor), Colin Frederick Campbell (Contributor), Thomas Campbell (Contributor), Winston S. Churchill (Contributor), Inga Clendinnen (Contributor), Henry Clifford (Contributor), Stephen Crane (Contributor), Peter Cremer (Contributor), David Crockett (Contributor), Elizabeth B. Custer (Contributor), Keith Douglas (Contributor), William Dunbar (Contributor), Hugh Dundas (Contributor), James Fenton (Contributor), W. H. Fitchett (Contributor), George MacDonald Fraser (Contributor), Arthur Fremantle (Contributor), Jean Froissart (Contributor), John Glubb (Contributor), Stephen Graham (Contributor), Robert Graves (Contributor), Thomas Hardy (Contributor), Ernest Hemingway (Contributor), Victor Hugo (Contributor), John D. Hunter (Contributor), Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (Contributor), Josephus (Contributor), George Kennard (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), William Laurence (Contributor), Franklin Lindsay (Contributor), Eric Lomax (Contributor), Compton Mackenzie (Contributor), John Masters (Contributor), John McCrae (Contributor), Andy McNab (Contributor), Stuart Milner-Barry (Contributor), Anna Myers (Contributor), Sir Henry Newbolt (Contributor), George Orwell (Contributor), Marie-Louise Osmont (Contributor), Wilfred Owen (Contributor), George Peele (Contributor), Ernie Pyle (Contributor), Paul Ragueneau (Contributor), Helen Roeder (Contributor), Sidney Rogerson (Contributor), Erwin Rommel (Contributor), Siegfried Sassoon (Contributor), Geyr von Schweppenburg, Freiherr, (Contributor), John Scott (Contributor), Bruce Shand (Contributor), David Smiley (Contributor), W. Eugene Smith (Cover Photographer), Robert Southey (Contributor), E. L. Spears (Contributor), Alexander Stahlberg (Contributor), Studs Terkel (Contributor), Thucydides (Contributor), Gerald Uloth (Contributor), Usāmah ibn Munqidh (Contributor), Jean de Wavrin (Contributor), Arthur Wellesley (Contributor), Andrew Wheatcroft (Contributor), Private Wheeler (Contributor), Xenophon (Contributor), W. B. Yeats (Contributor), Jacob Zimmerman (Contributor)

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More than eighty accounts, drawn largely from protagonists or eyewitnesses, of events in wars from the Greek Heroic Era to the Gulf War in Kuwait chronicle the evolution of western warfare.
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This is a reasonable anthology of writing about military endeavour from Herodotus to the present (1998). I suspect it was assembled from the reading list for a general history of warfare course conducted by the editor at Sandhurst. therefore it's a good anthology for exploring Keegan's mind. ( )
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