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The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes

The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes( )
Editor: Hastings, Max
Series title:Oxford Books of Prose Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-280384-9
Publication Date:Dec 2002
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $25.50
Book Description:

If anecdotes are marginal notes on the pages of history, these will delight any reader who has ever been moved or entertained by the condition of the soldier. Few fields of human endeavor have inspired so many memorable anecdotes as warfare, from the Bible and Livy through Gibbon and Froissart, to the imperial wars of the nineteenth century and the world conflicts of the twentieth. This collection is principally concerned with American and British conflicts, with, as the...
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Book Details
Pages:528
Detailed Subjects: Humor / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.031 x 7.644 x 1.1 Inches
Book Weight:0.792 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
British journalist, editor, and historian Max Hastings was born on December 28, 1945. He was a foreign correspondent for BBC television and London's Evening Standard, for which he later served as editor from 1996 to 2001. Hastings also worked as editor and editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph.

In addition to presenting BBC historical documentaries and writing numerous books of military history, Hastings has contributed to publications including the Daily Mail, The Guardian, and the New York Review of Books. He received the nonfiction Somerset Maugham Award for Bomber Command, as well as the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize for both Overlord and The Battle for the Falklands. His title Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2013. The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 was published in 2016 and is also on the New York Times Bestsellers List.

Hastings was knighted in 2002, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and from 2002-2007 was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

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