Warriors : Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield
Warriors : Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield
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Author: Sir Max Hastings
Number of Pages: 384 pages
Published Date: 06 Mar 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9780007198856
File size: 10 Mb
Download Link: Warriors Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield
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An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen 'warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings. Over the course of forty years of writing about war, Max Hastings has grown fascinated by outstanding deeds of derring-do on the battlefield (land, sea or air) - and by their practitioners. He takes as his examples sixteen people from different nationalities in modern history - including Napoleon's 'blessed fool' Baron Marcellin de Marbot (the model for Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard); Sir Harry Smith, whose Spanish wife Juana became his military companion on many a campaign in the early 19th-century; Lieutenant John Chard, an unassuming engineer who became the hero of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu wars; and Squadron Leader Guy Gibson, the 'dam buster' whose heroism in the skies of World War II earned him the nation's admiration, but few friends. Every army, in order to prevail on the battlefield, needs a certain number of people capable of courage beyond the norm. In this book Max Hastings investigates what this norm might be - and how it has changed over the centuries. While celebrating feats of outstanding valour, he also throws a beady eye over the awarding of medals for gallantry - and why it is that so often the most successful warriors rarely make the grade as leaders of men.
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Warriors : Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield by Sir Max Hastings
Author: Sir Max Hastings
Number of Pages: 384 pages
Published Date: 06 Mar 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9780007198856
File size: 10 Mb
Download Link: Warriors Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield
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An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen 'warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings. Over the course of forty years of writing about war, Max Hastings has grown fascinated by outstanding deeds of derring-do on the battlefield (land, sea or air) - and by their practitioners. He takes as his examples sixteen people from different nationalities in modern history - including Napoleon's 'blessed fool' Baron Marcellin de Marbot (the model for Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard); Sir Harry Smith, whose Spanish wife Juana became his military companion on many a campaign in the early 19th-century; Lieutenant John Chard, an unassuming engineer who became the hero of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu wars; and Squadron Leader Guy Gibson, the 'dam buster' whose heroism in the skies of World War II earned him the nation's admiration, but few friends. Every army, in order to prevail on the battlefield, needs a certain number of people capable of courage beyond the norm. In this book Max Hastings investigates what this norm might be - and how it has changed over the centuries. While celebrating feats of outstanding valour, he also throws a beady eye over the awarding of medals for gallantry - and why it is that so often the most successful warriors rarely make the grade as leaders of men.
Read online Warriors : Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield Buy Warriors : Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield Download and read Warriors : Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Warriors : Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent
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