Download e-book for kindle: War Stories: Gripping Tales of Courage, Cunning and by Peter Snow,Ann MacMillan

By Peter Snow,Ann MacMillan

War tales is a desirable account of normal women and men swept up within the turbulence of warfare. those are the tales - many untold in the past - of thirty-four people who have driven the limits of affection, bravery, discomfort and terror past the conceivable. They span 4 centuries and 4 continents. there's the braveness of Edward Seagar who survived the cost of the sunshine Brigade; the crafty of Krystyna Skarbek, quick-thinking secret agent and saboteur through the moment global battle; the skullduggery of Benedict Arnold, who switched aspects within the American struggle of Independence and the compassion of Magdalene de Lancey who tenderly nursed her demise husband at Waterloo.

Told with vibrant narrative aptitude and entire of unforeseen insights, War tales moves without problems from stories of spies, escapes and innovation to uplifting acts of humanity, celebrating women and men whose wartime reviews are past compare.

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