This book contains an extensive collection of vivid and elequent prose and verse from those who have witnessed the intensity of war at first hand. Begining with Elizabeth I's stiring speech to her soldiers at Tilbury to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Each piece reflects actual experience and it has a good selection of WW1 articles. However it is balancing to read accounts from other eras to realise that with all its mud and gore the First World War was not unique.
A book to brows through in easily digested pieces; recommended for the general reader and any student of warfare.
Edited by: Anthony and Nicholas Bird 2006
ISBN 978-1-84024-543-1