Stories of War with Max Hastings
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Condition of the Warrior Through the Ages
Max wakes me back with you. Congratulations on the new one. It's a very different kind of book, this one. This is not whote i have written. This is a collection of the best stories that i've come across in all the years - first as a schoolboy and then as a correspondent on the battlefield. And ever since then, as a historian of stories about men and women at war, and what i've tried to do is to illustrate,. but the condition of the warrior through the ages. That throughout history, from david and goliath onwards, people who fought were heroes.
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