up close to war, and personal

Book review:

The Book of War:

25 Centuries of Great War Writing

John Keegan, ed. (1934-2012)

New York: Penguin Books, 1999

492 pages, with list of sources and index

The Book of War is an endlessly compelling collection of mostly personal accounts of the horrible experiences of war and combat and the death of comrades.

Keegan has collected the often obscure writings of many recognizable writers, such as Davy Crockett, Victor Hugo, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Winston Churchill, and Studs Terkel. The reader also finds numerous contributions by authentic ordinary people who happened to get in the way of war that surrounded them.

There’s nothing pleasant about the book.

Every page is a revelation of the hurt and the loss and the heroics and the degradation of human warfare.

Read The Book of War before you decide to study war no more.

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We Were Soldiers Once…and Young

…too much death (book review)

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.)

and Joseph L. Galloway

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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,

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