I am Soldier: War stories, from the Ancient World to the 20th Century

Robert O'Neill · Richard Holmes

dic 2011 · Bloomsbury Publishing

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I am Soldier brings together the profiles of sixty soldiers who have fought over the past 2,500 years.

These vivid accounts graphically depict the role of the soldier in battle often using the soldiers' own words to reveal what they felt during the chaos of war and its aftermath.

From the Spartans at Thermopylae to the war in the Persian Gulf, this book shows the lives of the individual men and woman who made up the great armies that changed the world.

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Richard Holmes is one of Britain's most distinguished and authoritative military historians. He is Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University and the Royal Military College of Science. His television credits include the award-winning The Western Front, Comrades in Arms, Dunkirk 1940 and The War Within. Holmes both wrote and presented the War Walks series, Battlefields and Brothers at War.

Professor Robert O'Neill is the consultant editor of The Road to Victory and the editor of I am Soldier, both from Osprey.

Contributors include Michael Whitby, Anne Curry, David Nicolle, Richard Bonney, Daniel Marston, Carter Malkesian, John Sweetman, Peter Simkins, Michael Hickey and others.