Declarations of War - Softcover

Deighton, Len

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402790600 ISBN 13: 9781402790607

Publisher: Sterling, 2011

Synopsis

This dazzling array of stories, Len Deighton's only collection of shorter fiction, spans 23 centuries of warfare.

Deighton's gripping tales range from  Hannibal's march on Rome--when strange, moving objects terrorize the troops of one of the toughest, most skilful armies in history--to a belittled Civil War general's efforts 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.

Each tale in Declarations of War explores the effects of war upon man's character, how it pushes him to act in a dehumanized, machine-like, and sometimes extraordiary way that can lead to both good and ill. Deighton 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 this title

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.

Review

Mr Deighton is really something special.” --Sunday Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Sterling
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402790600
• ISBN 13: 9781402790607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192