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The Oxford Book Of Military Anecdotes (oxford Books Of Prose) by Max Hastings is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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. <br> This collection is principally concerned with American and British conflicts, with, as the author says, "occas
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- Author
- Max Hastings
- Publisher
- Oxford [England] ; New York: Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192141743
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Military, History, Government_military
- Rating
- 4.67 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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