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| Editor's Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | ||
| The Melian Dialogue | 3 | |
| The Final Sea Battle | 12 | |
| The Battle of Cunaxa and Death of Cyrus | 15 | |
| A Plundering Expedition | 20 | |
| First British Expedition | 25 | |
| The Horrors of the Siege | 30 | |
| An Arab-Syrian Gentleman | 41 | |
| The Battle of Crecy, 26 August 1346 | 46 | |
| A French Knight's Account of Agincourt | 52 | |
| The Fall of Constantinople | 60 | |
| Such Botching, Disorder and Chaos | 69 | |
| The Siege of Malta | 74 | |
| Aztecs | 84 | |
| Farewell to Arms | 90 | |
| An Attack by Iroquois Warriors | 91 | |
| Braddock at the Monongahela | 99 | |
| The Battle of Blenheim | 102 | |
| The Revolution Remembered (1) | 105 | |
| The Drum | 112 | |
| The Revolution Remembered (2) | 113 | |
| Davy Crockett | 118 | |
| Captivity Among the Indians | 122 | |
| Hohenlinden | 132 | |
| Fugitive and Recruit 1804-6 | 137 | |
| Badajoz March-April 1812 | 141 | |
| The Battle of Vitorio | 149 | |
| Captain Roeder | 155 | |
| Russia 1812 | 169 | |
| The Letters of Private Wheeler | 172 | |
| Wellington's Waterloo Despatch | 177 | |
| A Soldier's View of Empire | 184 | |
| Clifford in the Crimea | 187 | |
| Letters from Camp | 197 | |
| The Relief of Lucknow | 201 | |
| The Fremantle Diary | 205 | |
| War is Kind | 210 | |
| General Custer | 211 | |
| Tommy | 226 | |
| Four eyewitness accounts | 228 | |
| Vitai Lampada | 243 | |
| How the News of War Came to a Village on the Chinese Frontier | 247 | |
| In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' | 251 | |
| Infantry Attacks | 252 | |
| Gallipoli Memories | 258 | |
| Twelve Days | 262 | |
| In Flanders Fields | 274 | |
| A Soldier's Diary of the Great War | 274 | |
| Prelude to Victory | 283 | |
| An Irish Airman Foresees His Death | 296 | |
| Goodbye to All That | 296 | |
| Wounded (1) | 303 | |
| The Hero | 307 | |
| Riding to War | 308 | |
| The General | 314 | |
| Red Cavalry | 315 | |
| Anthem for Doomed Youth | 318 | |
| Bugles and a Tiger | 318 | |
| Bounden Duty (1) | 325 | |
| One Young Soldier | 337 | |
| Wounded (2) | 342 | |
| Previous Engagements | 345 | |
| BBC Broadcast, London, 19 May 1940 | 349 | |
| Codebreakers | 354 | |
| U-[subscript 333] | 366 | |
| Flying Start | 373 | |
| Loopy | 378 | |
| The Good War | 383 | |
| David Stirling | 398 | |
| Aristocrats | 403 | |
| Bounden Duty (2) | 404 | |
| On the Other Side of the Hill | 410 | |
| Normandy Diary | 419 | |
| Battle and Breakout in Normandy | 424 | |
| Albanian Assignment | 427 | |
| Beacons in the Night | 431 | |
| Bounden Duty (3) | 436 | |
| Quartered Safe Out Here | 442 | |
| The Railway Man | 447 | |
| Bombing Nagasaki | 452 | |
| Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning | 457 | |
| The Fall of Saigon | 461 | |
| Bravo Two Zero | 464 | |
| Sources and Acknowledgements | 468 | |
| Index of Authors | 477 | |
| Index | 479 |
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Christopher Hoyle
reviewed The Book of War: 25 Centuries of Great War Writing on July 01, 2011 The Book of War
Anyone who likes military history should read this book. It is a collection of primary and secondary writings about various wars going back to the age of Greece and Rome. Every reader will take something different from it. You can't help but compare and contrast tactics and methods between the different wars.
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