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517 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations, maps, plates.
Summary: Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne arms, reflecting historian Max Hastings’s lifetime of studying war. It rings the changes through the centuries, between the heroic, tragic and comic; the famous and the humble. The nearly 350 stories illustrate what it is like to fight in wars, to live and die as a warrior, from Greek and Roman times through to recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Distributor)