The mammoth book of combat. (©2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jon E. Lewis.
• Other Names: Lewis, Jon E, 1961-
• Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Alex Kershaw; Introduction; Part I The Age of Empire and Emancipation, 1854-1913; William Howard Russell: The Battle of Balaclava (Crimean War, 1854); B.S. Osbon: The Ball Is Opened, War Is Inaugurated (American Civil War, 1861); George W. Smalley: The Contest in Maryland (American Civil War, 1862); Walt Whitman: The Great Army of the Sick (American Civil War, 1863); Special Correspondent: Siege by Moonlight (American Civil War, 1863); Sam Wilkeson: Gettysburg: A Dispatch Written Beside the Body of My Dead Son (American Civil War, 1863). H.J. Winser: Our Prisoners (American Civil War, 1864)Archibald Forbes: The Battle and Surrender at Sedan (Franco-Prussian War, 1870); Henry Labouchere: The Siege of Paris (Franco-Prussian War, 1870); Archibald Forbes: The Suppression of the Paris Commune (Franco-Prussian War, 1871); Januarius Aloysius MacGahan: Massacre in Batak (Bulgarian Revolt, 1876); Philip Hensman: The Storming of Takht-i-Shah Peak (Afghan War, 1879); John Alexander Cameron: The Fight on Majuba Hill (Transvaal Revolt, 1881); Richard Harding Davis: The Death of Adolfo Rodriguez (Spanish-American War, 1897). George Warrington Steevens: The Attack on the Atbara (War in the Sudan, 1898)George Warrington Steevens: We Buried Gordon After the Manner of His Race (War in the Sudan, 1898); Stephen Crane: Stephen Crane at the Front for the World (Spanish-American War, 1898); Winston S. Churchill: Escape (Boer War, 1900); Rudyard Kipling: Skirmish at Kari Siding (Boer War, 1901); Jack London: Beware the Monkey Cage (Russo-Japanese War, 1904); Leon Trotsky: The Seamy Side of Victory (Balkan Wars, 1912); John Reed: The Coming of the Colorados (Mexican Revolution, 1913). Part II The Era of Total War, 1914-1946Richard Harding Davis: Saw German Army Roll On Like Fog (WWI, 1914); Arthur Moore: The Great Retreat (WWI, 1914); Philip Gibbs: Heroic Incidents in the Advance (WWI, 1916); Luigi Barzini: The Battle in the Snows (WWI, 1916); Rudyard Kipling: The Battle of Jutland (WWI, 1916); Arthur Ransome: War and Revolution (WWI, 1916-7); Floyd Gibbons: The Sinking of the Laconia (WWI, 1917); Henry G. Wales: Death Comes to Mata Hari (WWI, 1917); Morgan Philips Price: How the Bolsheviks Took the Winter Palace (Russian Civil War, 1917). Beach Thomas: German Rout (WWI, 1918)Frazier Hunt: I Capture Vladivostok (Russian Civil War, 1919); Kirke L. Simpson: Bugles Sound Taps for Warrior's Requiem (WWI, 1921); O.D. Gallagher: The Relief of the Alcazar (Spanish Civil War, 1936); George Orwell: The Attack on the Fascist Redoubt (Spanish Civil War, 1937); George Steer: The Tragedy of Guernica Town Destroyed in Air Attack: Eyewitness's Account (Spanish Civil War, 1937); Langston Hughes: Hughes Bombed in Spain (Spanish Civil War, 1937); John Dos Passos: Room and Bath at the Hotel Florida (Spanish Civil War, 1938).
• Publisher Details: London Philadelphia : Robinson Running Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 070.449355; Journalism, Military; Combat; Fighter pilots -- Biography; Fighter plane combat -- Personal narratives; War correspondents; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism; Combat; Journalism, Military; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781780339184; 1780339186
• Related ISBNs: 9781780339177; 1780339178
• ISSNs: 6005-1273
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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