The Oxford book of military anecdotes
Max Hastings (Editor)
This collection is principally concerned with American and British conflicts with occasional forays into foreign armies - notably the Greeks, the Romans, and Napoleon's soldiers. Hastings has sought stories which illustrate the military condition through the ages, both on the battlefield and in the barracks: comic, eccentric, heroic, tragic
Print Book, English, 1985
Oxford University Press, Oxford [Oxfordshire], 1985
Anecdotes
x, 514 pages ; 23 cm
9780192141071, 9780195205282, 0192141074, 0195205286
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Thomas James Mathias
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Hubert Cole
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John Blakiston
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Raymond Horricks
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Samual Carter III
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Major H.R. Hadow
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Robert Graves
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Ronald Lewin
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Henry Williamson
John Masters
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John Frost
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David Divine
Eric Linklater
James Lees Milne
Sir James Marshall-Cornwall
J.R. Henderson
Bernard Fergusson
Russell Braddon
John Verney
Guy Sajer
Stephen Ambrose
Sir John Wheeler-Bennett
Manfred Rommel
Douglas Sutherland
Richard Meinzerhagen
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