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Jean Larteguy

The Centurions

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The military cult classic with resonance to the wars in Iraq and Vietnam-now back in printWhen The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed: how to fight when the age of heroics is over. As relevant today as it was half a century ago, The Centurions is a gripping military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency. Featuring a foreword by renowned military expert Robert D. K… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Fielding, Xan / Kaplan, Robert D.
  • ISBN: 978-0-14-310744-6
  • EAN: 9780143107446
  • Produktnummer: 17085672
  • Verlag: Penguin Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 544 S.
  • Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.4 cm 379 g
  • Gewicht: 379

Über den Autor


JEAN LARTÉGUY (1920-2011) is the penname of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, who served as a soldier in Korea and North Africa before becoming a distinguished journalist and novelist. ALEXANDER (XAN) WALLACE FIELDING (1918-1991) served as a Special Operations Executive in the British Army in Crete, France, and the Far East. The author of several books, he also translated French works including Pierre Boulle's The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes. ROBERT D. KAPLAN is the author of many acclaimed books on the military, foreign affairs, and travel, including Balkan Ghosts, The Revenge of Geography, and Imperial Grunts.

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