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Declarations of War

Declarations of War

Declarations of War Paperback - 1977

by Deighton, Len

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England: Panther, 1977. Book. Very good-. Mass Market Paperback. Spine is mildly creased. Where possible small books will have postage reduced.
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  • Title Declarations of War
  • Author Deighton, Len
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition paperback / soft
  • Condition Used - Very good-
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Panther, England
  • Publication date 1977
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 019000
  • ISBN 9780586038116 / 0586038116
  • Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 7 x 4.38 x 0.69 in (17.78 x 11.13 x 1.75 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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A collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death. Includes a new fourteenth story which appears here for the very first time.

Len Deighton's only collection of shorter fiction, this dazzling array of stories spans twenty-three centuries of warfare.

From Hannibal's march on Rome - when strange, moving objects terrorise the troops of one of the toughest and most skilful armies in history - to the efforts of a belittled Civil War general to get his men to face the Confederate army; to the dawn skies above an artillery-blasted French battle-line where a dogfight unfolds, to Vietnam; where two lost American soldiers stumble across an abandoned military airfield. A bonus story, new to this edition, reveals a very different kind of war, played out in the present-day Mexican borderlands.

Each story in Declarations of War explores the effects of war upon man's character, how it pushes him to act in a dehumanized, machine-like way, often leading to extraordinary deeds, both good and ill. It portrays human conflict through a series of devastating experiences and shows how great deeds are often but the smallest thread in the large fabric of war.

About the author

Born in London, Len Deighton served in the RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently elected him a Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, The Ipcress File, which was published in 1962. He is now the author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction. At present living in Europe, he has, over the years, lived with his family in ten different countries from Austria to Portugal.

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