On war : : the Best Military Histories

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Includes index.
All contributing authors are recipients of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
"The trade edition of On War: The Best Military Histories was preceded by a limited leather-bound edition of 26 lettered copies signed by each of the authors, as well as 100 numbered copies, each housed in a clamshell case, accompanied by a sterling silver commemorative coin and signed by each of the authors." -- verso.
"We Are All Americans," from Battle Cry of Freedom / James M. McPherson -- "Assault from the Sea," from Military Innovation in the Interwar Period / Allan R. Millett -- "Adolf Hitler" and "Franklin D. Roosevelt," from Visions of Victory / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- Prologue, from An Army at Dawn / Rick Atkinson -- "Patton's Finest Hour," adapted from Patton: A Genius for War / Carlo D'Este -- "The British Fight," from Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War / Max Hastings -- "How to Tell a True War Story," from The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien.

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