The book of war
By: edited by John Keegan.
Contributors: Keegan, John, 1934-
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780140296556
Subjects: Military history
Other titles: War.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Viking, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [468]-476) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The Melian dialogue / Thucydides; title: The final sea battle / Thucydides; title: The battle of Cunaxa and death of Cyrus / Xenophon; title: A plundering expedition / Xenophon; title: First British expedition / Julius Caesar; title: The horrors of the seige / Josephus; title: An Arab-Syrian gentleman / Usamah Ibn-Munqidh; title: the battle of Crecy, 26 August 1346 / Jean Froissart; title: A French knight's account of Agincourt / Jehan de Wavrin; title: The fall of Constantinople / Andrew Wheatcroft; title: Such botching, disorder and chaos / Diego Hurtado de Mendoze; title: The siege of Malta / Francesco Balbi di Correggio; title: Aztecs / Inga Clendinnen; title: Farewell to arms / George Peele (1558-1596); title: An attack by Iroquois warriors / Father Paul Ragueneau; title: Braddock at the Monongahela / William Dunbar; title: The battle of Blenheim / Robert Southey (1774-1843); title: The revolution remembered (1) / Anna Meyers; title: The drum / John Scott of Amwell (1730-1793); title: The revolution remembered (2) / Jacob Zimmerman; title: Davy Crockett / Davy Crockett; title: Captivity among the Indians / John D. HUnter; title: Hohenlinden / Thomas Campbell (1777-1844); title: (cont.) Fugitive and recruit 1804-6 / Sergeant William Lawrence; title: Badajoz March-April 1812 / Sergeant William Lawrence; title: The Battle of Vitorio / A gentleman volunteer; title: Captain Roeder / Helen Roeder; title: Russian 1812 / Victor Hugo (1802-1885); title: The letter of Private Wheeler / Private Wheeler; title: Wellington's Waterloo despatch / Duke of Wellington; title: A soldier's view of empire / James Bodell; title: Cliffore in the crimea / Henry Clifford; title: Letter from camp / Colin Frederick; title: The relief of Lucknow / W. H. Fitchett; title: The Fremantle diary / Lieutenant-Colonel Fremantle; title: War is kind / Stephan Crane (1871-1936); title: General Custer / Elizabeth B. Custer; title: Tommy / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936); title: Four eyewitness accounts / Isandhlwana and Rorke's drift, 1879; title: Vitai Lampada / Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938); title: (cont.) How the news of war came to a village on the Chinese frontier / Stephen Graham; title: In time of 'The breaking of nations' / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928); title: Infantry attacks / Erwin Rommel; title: Gallipoli memories / Compton Mackenzie; title: Twelve days / Sidney Rogerson; title: In Flanders Fields / John McCrae (1872-1918); title: A soldier's diary of the Great War / John Glubb; title: Prelude to victory / Brigadier-General E. L. Spears; title: An Irish airman foresees his death / W. B. Yeats; title: Goodbye to all that / Robert Graves; title: Wounded (1) / Ernest Hemmingway; title: The hero / Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967); title: Riding to war / Geral Uloth; title: The General / Sigfried Sassoon (1886-1967); title: (cont.) Red cavalry / Isaac Babel; title: Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen (1893-1918); title: Bugles and a tiger / John Masters; title: Bounden duty (1) / Alexander Stahlberg; title: One young soldier / Tim Bishop; title: Wounded (2) / George Orwell; title: Previous engagements / Bruce Shand; title: BBC broadcast, London, 19 May 1940 / Winston Churchill; title: Codebreakers / Stuart Milner-Barry; title: U-333 / Peter Cremer; title: Loopy / George Kennard; title: The good war / Studs Terkel; title: David Stirling / Obituary; title: Aristocrats / Keith Douglas (1920-44); title: Bounden duty (2) / Alexander Stahlberg; title: On the other side of the hill / Geyr von Schweppenburg; title: Normandy diary / Marie-Louise Osmont; title: Albanian assignment / David Smiley; title: Beacons in the night / Franklin Lindsay; title: Bounden duty (3) / Alexander Stahlberg; title: Quartered safe out here / George MacDonal Fraser; title: The railway man / Eric Lomax; title: Bombing Nagasaki / William Lawrence; title: Red thunder, tropic lightning / C. W. Bowman; title: The fall of Saigon / James Fenton; title: Bravo two zero / Andy McNab.