Declarations of War
By Len Deighton
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A collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death.
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.
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.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A 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