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Introduction / E. Hemingway -- War is part of the intercourse of the human race -- Invasion of Britain / J. Caesar -- Battle of Hastings, 1066 A.D. / C. Oman -- French crusade, 1249-1250 A.D. / J. de Joinville -- Battle of Arsouf / C. Oman -- Death on Montezuma / W.H. Prescott -- Who called you here? / E.J. Petersen -- Invaders / R. Hillary -- Massacre at Matanzas Inlet / P. Menéndez de Avilés -- Red badge of courage / S. Crane -- Blocking of Zeebrugge / A. Hurd -- Horatius at the bridge / Livy -- Shiloh, bloody Shiloh! / L. Lewis -- How David slew Goliath / Bible -- Fight on the hilltop / E. Hemingway -- Last battle of King Arthur / T. Malory -- At all costs / R. Aldington -- Pass of Thermopylae 430 B.C. / C. Yonge -- Sword of the Lord and of Gideon / T. Roosevelt -- Deguelo / M. James -- Torture / T.E. Lawrence -- Tsushima / F. Thiess -- The Parisian / A. Brooks -- March to the sea / Xenophon -- Vale of tears / L. Stallings -- Odyssey of three Slavs / A. Brooks -- War is the province of uncertainty -- Gold from Crete / C.S. Forester -- Harper's Ferry / L. Ehrlich -- Custer / F. Van de Water -- Egg for the major / C.S. Forester -- Merrimac and the Monitor / M. Johnston -- Manila Bay / G. Dewey -- Tank fighting in Libya / A. Moorehead -- Blowing up a train / T.E. Lawrence -- War is the province of chance -- Lisette at Eylau / General Marbot -- Stolen railroad train / Marquis James -- Turn about / W. Faulkner -- Trojan horse / Virgil -- Air battle / C. Nordhoff and J.N. Hall -- People's war / L. Tolstoy -- Wrong road / Marquis James -- Corvetee Claymore / V. Hugo -- Miracle at Dunkirk / A.D. Divine -- War is the province of fiction -- Gallipoli / J.F.C. Fuller -- Stars in their courses / J.W. Thomason -- Waterloo / V. Hugo -- Retreat from Caporetto / E. Hemingway -- Battle of Cannae / Livy -- Victory of the Americans at Saratoga / E.S. Creasy -- The lost Battalion / T.M. Johnson and F. Pratt -- War demands resolution, firmness and staunchness -- Bagration's rearguard action / L. Tolstoy -- After the final victory / A. Smedley -- Her private we / Private 19022 -- Borodina / L. Tolstoy -- Trafalgar / R. Southey -- Battle of Atlanta / L. Lewis -- Cavalry charge at Omdurman / W. Churchill -- Sun of Austerlitz / General Marbot -- Oriskany: 1777 / W.D. Edmonds -- Marines at Soissons / John W. Thomason -- Battle of Ypres / Frank Richards -- The occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / A. Bierce -- Joshua's conquest of Jericho / Bible -- Taking of Lungtungpen / R. Kipling -- Ball-of-fat / G. de Maupassant -- Hands across the sea / A. Woollcott -- I bombed the barges / Captain of a Blenheim Bomber -- Italian debacle at Guadalajara / F.G. Tinker -- Buchmendel / S. Zweig -- I take Vladivostok / F. Hunt -- Up periscope! / Officer of H.M. Submarine Sturgeon -- Father Duffy / A. Woollcott -- War years / J. Hilton -- Soldiers of the republic / D. Parker -- Chauffeurs of Madrid / E. Hemingway -- Man's bound to fight / J.W. Thomason -- Squadron scramble / B. Kennerly -- Name and a flag / J.W. Thomason -- Personal view of Waterloo / Stendhal -- Falling through space / R. Hillary -- Pearl Harbor / B. Clark -- Three men on a raft / H.F. Dixon -- Midway / W.B. Clausen. |
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War.
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War stories.
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War. (OCoLC)fst01170328
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War stories. (OCoLC)fst01170627
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, editor, writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9781507716342 |
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1507716346 |
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