The Book of War 25 Centuries of Great War Writing

by Keegan, John

• ISBN13: 9780140296556
• ISBN10: 0140296557
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

"Some of the best that has been thought and said about armed conflict over the course of 25 centuries."- Amazon.com. "A brilliantly edited and comprehensive anthology."- The New York Times Book Review.

Author Biography

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (1934–2012), 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 Daily Telegraph (London). Keegan was the author of numerous books including The Face of Battle, The Mask of Command, The Price of Admiralty, Six Armies in Normandy, and The Second World War, and was a fellow at the Royal Society of Literature.

Table of Contents

Editor's Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	ix
PART I
Thucydides: The Melian Dialogue	3	(9)
Thucydides: The Final Sea Battle	12	(3)
Xenophon: The Battle of Cunaxa and Death of Cyrus	15	(5)
Xenophon: A Plundering Expedition	20	(5)
Julius Caesar: First British Expedition	25	(5)
Josephus: The Horrors of the Siege	30	(11)
Usamah Ibn-Munqidh; An Arab-Syrian Gentleman	41	(5)
Jean Froissart: The Battle of Crecy, 26 August 1346	46	(6)
Jehan de Wavrin: A French Knight's Account of Agincourt	52	(8)
Andrew Wheatcroft: The Fall of Constantinople	60	(9)
Diego Hurtado de Mendoze: Such Botching, Disorder and Chaos	69	(5)
Francesco Balbi di Correggio: The Siege of Malta	74	(10)
Inga Clendinnen: Aztecs	84	(6)
George Peele (1558-1596): Farewell to Arms	90	(1)
Father Paul Ragueneau: An Attack by Iroquois Warriors	91	(8)
William Dunbar: Braddock at the Monongahela	99	(3)
Robert Southey (1774-1843): The Battle of Blenheim	102	(3)
Anna Myers: The Revolution Remembered (1)	105	(7)
John Scott of Amwell (1730-1793): The Drum	112	(1)
Jacob Zimmerman: The Revolution Remembered (2)	113	(5)
David Crockett: Davy Crockett	118	(4)
John D. Hunter: Captivity Among the Indians	122	(10)
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): Hohenlinden	132	(5)
PART II
Sergeant William Lawrence: Fugitive and Recruit 1804-6	137	(4)
Sergeant William Lawrence: Badajoz Marc-April 1812	141	(8)
A Gentleman Volunteer: The Battle of Vitorio	149	(6)
Helen Roeder: Captain Roeder	155	(14)
Victor Hugo (1802-1885): Russia 1812	169	(3)
Private Wheeler: The Letters of Private Wheeler	172	(5)
Duke of Wellington: Wellington's Waterloo Despatch	177	(7)
James Bodell: A Soldier's View of Empire	184	(3)
Henry Clifford: Clifford in the Crimea	187	(10)
Coin Frederick Campbell: Letters from Camp	197	(4)
W.H. Fitchett: The Relief of Lucknow	201	(4)
Lieutenant-Colonel Fremantle: The Fremantle Diary	205	(5)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900): War is Kind	210	(1)
Eizabeth B. Custer: General Custer	211	(15)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): Tommy	226	(2)
Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, 1879: Four eyewitness accounts	228	(15)
Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938): Vitai Lampada	243	(4)
PART III
Stephen Graham: How the News of War Came to a Village on the Chinese Frontier	247	(4)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): In Time of `The Breaking of Nations'	251	(1)
Erwin Rommel: Infantry Attacks	252	(6)
Compton Mackenzie: Gallipoli Memories	258	(4)
Sidney Rogerson: Twelve Days	262	(12)
John McCrae (1872-1918): In Flanders Fields	274	(1)
John Glubb: A Soldier's Diary of the Great War	274	(9)
Brigadier-General E.L. Spears: Prelude to Victory	283	(13)
W.B. Yeats: An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	296	(1)
Robert Graves: Goodbye to All That	296	(7)
Ernest Hemingway: Wounded (1)	303	(4)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967): The Hero	307	(1)
Gerald Uloth Riding to War	308	(6)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967): The General	314	(1)
Isaac Babel; Red Cavalry	315	(3)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918): Anthem for Doomed Youth	318	(1)
John Masters: Bugles and a Tiger	318	(7)
Alexander Stahlberg: Bounden Duty (1)	325	(12)
Tim Bishop: One Young Soldier	337	(5)
George Orwell: Wounded (2)	342	(3)
Bruce Shand: Previous Engagements	345	(4)
Winston Churchill: BBC Broadcast, London, 19 May 1940	349	(5)
Stuart Milner-Barry: Codebreakers	354	(12)
Peter Cremer; U-333	366	(7)
Hugh Dundas; Flying Start	373	(5)
George Kennard: Loopy	378	(5)
Studs Terkel: The Good War	383	(15)
Obituary: David Stirling	398	(5)
Keith Douglas (1920-44): Aristocrats	403	(1)
Alexander Stahlberg: Bounden Duty (2)	404	(6)
Geyr von Schweppenburg: On the Other Side of the Hill	410	(9)
Marie-Louise Osmont: Normandy Diary	419	(5)
Ernie Pyle: Battle and Breakout in Normandy	424	(3)
David Smiley: Albanian Assignment	427	(4)
Franklin Lindsay: Beacons in the Night	431	(5)
Alexander Stahlberg: Bounden Duty (3)	436	(6)
George MacDonald Fraser: Quartered Safe Out here	442	(5)
Eric Lomax: The Railway Man	447	(5)
William Laurence: Bombing Nagasaki	452	(5)
C.W. Bowman: Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning	457	(4)
James Fenton; The Fall of Saigon	461	(3)
Andy McNab: Bravo Two Zero	464	(4)
Sources and Acknowledgements	468	(9)
Index of Authors	477	(2)
Index	479