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A collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death. Includes a new fourteenth story which appears here for the very first time.
Len Deighton's only collection of shorter fiction, this dazzling array of stories spans twenty-three centuries of warfare.
From Hannibal's march on Rome - when strange, moving objects terrorise the troops of one of the toughest and most skilful armies in history - to the efforts of a belittled Civil War general to get his men to face the Confederate army; to the dawn skies above an artillery-blasted French battle-line where a dogfight unfolds, to Vietnam; where two lost American soldiers stumble across an abandoned military airfield. A bonus story, new to this edition, reveals a very different kind of war, played out in the present-day Mexican borderlands.
Each story in Declarations of War explores the effects of war upon man's character, how it pushes him to act in a dehumanized, machine-like way, often leading to extraordinary deeds, both good and ill. It portrays human conflict through a series of devastating experiences and shows how great deeds are often but the smallest thread in the large fabric of war.
| ISBN-13 | 9780586038116 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0586038116 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 4.37 x 0.71 x 7.01 In |
| List Price | $9.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 288 pages |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Published On | 2010-09-30 |
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