{"product_id":"declarations-of-war-pb-z49","title":"Len Deighton: Declarations of War [2016] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eLen Deighton's only collection of shorter fiction, this dazzling array of stories spans twenty-three centuries of warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deighton, Len","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42031650308281,"sku":"9780008162221","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/deighton-len-len-deighton-declarations-of-war-2016-paperback-9780008162221-58076441051475.jpg?v=1727054582","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/declarations-of-war-pb-z49","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}