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A carregar... Declarations of War (1971)por Len Deighton
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A collection of short stories specifically written for this book. They all feature some aspect of war - almost all of them cover the first world war, though there are a couple in the 2nd and two set elsewhere. Frontline infantry or airforce are the obvious targets. As a selection it is interestingly varied in tone, feel and setting. However none of the stories really stand out. Thjey all lack the finishing punch that a expert short story writer can achieve. There is no twist in any of them. They would each probably work as novellas or even full novels - which would not be the case for most short stories. Deighton does a good job in character and world building though creating intreresting people within just a few pages. Each of the stories is short, no more than five pages or so long. Readable, but nothing special
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A 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. Len Deighton's only collection of shorter fiction, this dazzling array of stories spans twenty-three centuries of warfare. From 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. Each 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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The 2010 HarperCollins paperback edition includes a brief note from the cover designer and an illuminating introduction by Deighton explaining how the collection came into being. ( )