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Cargando... Soldiers: A History of Men in Battlepor John Keegan, Richard Holmes
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Celebrated military historian, John Keegan, and co-author, Richard Holmes, chart the changes in the conduct of warfare through history with an instructive combination of analysis and illustration. In the process they reveal that what has not changed is that an army ultimately has to depend on the courage and determination of its fighting men. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Interestingly, as Frederick Forsyth writes in the Forward:
“We come here to understand how the engineers make warfare possible and are locked in eternal rivalry, some charged to create the defensive fortifications, their opponents to sap and blast those redoubts away and open the road for their colleagues to sweep through.”
In a most interesting chapter, the book also discusses how casualties were handled throughout the ages.
The book concludes:
“Old soldiers never die; but ninety-nine soldiers in a hundred are pitiably young, and they die in their Millions, without beginning to guess why it is that life asks that of them. . . .May the world, in its next ten thousand years, find a way of working that spares the old the need to ask the young that sacrifice.” ( )