Classic War Stories
By:Lamar Underwood
Published on 2003 by Lyons Press
Enduring and irresistible, these stories of battles great and small are among the timeless standouts of the genre. From Winston Churchill's dramatic escape from captivity during the Boer War, to Napoleon facing Wellington at Waterloo, to Francis Parkman's account of the fall of Fort William Henry on the American frontier, these are the stories that quicken the pulse and move the heart. Included, among others, are: The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale--The Return of a Private by Hamlin Garland--The Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar--Ball-of-Fat by Guy De Maupassant The Drums of the Fore and Aft by Rudyard Kipling--An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce--Mr. Standfast by John Buchan--Through the Wheat by James Boyd The Battle of Borodino by Leo Tolstoy--Capture and Escape by Winston S. Churchill Fort William Henry by Francis Parkman--The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-- The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson--The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava by Tennyson--Waterloo by Victor Hugo--The Private History of a Campaign That Failed by Mark Twain--Gettysburg by General James Longstreet--The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Here, in one volume, is the experience of war brought to the reader with all the force and feeling great prose can achieve.
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