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Title

The best war stories ever told / edited by Stephen Brennan.

Publication

New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2011.

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Additional Authors

Brennan, Stephen Vincent

Description

570 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

War stories

Genre/Form

• War stories.
• War stories

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The rage of Achilles / Homer -- The wooden horse and the sack of Troy / Quintus of Smyrna -- David slew Goliath / King James Bible -- The battle of Cannae / Livy -- The pass at Thermopylae / Charlotte Yonge -- Horatius at the bridge / Livy -- Joshua conquest of Jericho / King James Bible -- Caesar invades Britain / Julius Caesar -- The warrior Anglo-Saxons / Charles Oman -- The battle of Cressy / Jean Froissart -- Henry V before the battle / William Shakespeare -- The Battle of Hastings, 1066 A.D. / Charles Oman -- The death of Montezuma / William Prescott -- The Massacre at Fort William Henry / James Fenimore Cooper -- Partisan war / Francis Parkman, Jr. -- Campaign of 1778 / J.P. Martin -- A rearguard action / Leo Tolstoy -- The crime of the Brigadier / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Bladensburg races / Neil Swanson -- The Battle of Palo Alto, Battle of Resaca de la Palma, movement on Camagro / U.S. Grant -- "Look at Jackson's brigade! It stands there like a stone wall! / G.T. Beauregard -- The scout toward Aldie / Herman Melville -- On occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The Kearsarge sinks the Alabama / Arthur Sinclair -- The Battle of Manila Bay / George Dewey -- The Battle of Little Big Horn / Stilling Bull's version -- The Sergeant's private mad house / Stephen Crane -- With the Fifth Corps in Cuba / Frederic Remington -- Virtue in war / Stephen Crane -- The taking of Lungtungpen / Rudyard Kipling -- One officer, one man / Ambrose Bierce -- In the trenches / Alden Brooks -- Blowing up a train / T.E. Lawrence -- Air battle / Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall -- Alwin York or The swoard of the Lord and of Gideon / Theodore Roosevelt -- Bridge on the River Kwai / Alistair Urquhart -- Sittang bend / George Mcdonald Fraser -- Shoulder to shoulder with Gurkhas / Tim Newark -- Tragedy in Vietname / Adrian D. Gilbert.

ISBN

• 9781616084332 (alk. paper)
• 1616084332 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011037927

OCLC

• 711051882
• SCSB-11471155

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library