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""I am Soldier"" brings together the profiles of sixty soldiers who have fought over the past 2,500. These vivid accounts graphically depict the role of the soldier in battle often using the soldiers' own words to reveal what they felt during the chaos of war and its aftermath. From the Spartans at Thermopylae to the war in the Persian Gulf, this book shows the lives of the individual men and woman who made up the great armies that changed the world.

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Robert O'Neill edits I Am Soldier: War Stories from the Ancient World to the 20th Century, a powerful collection of first-person military observations crossing hundreds of years of experience around the world. --The Bookwatch (January 2010) Every soldier in every war who has experienced the horrors of combat and lived to talk about it has a story to tell. It does not matter what period of history we are discussing, from ancient times to today's fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, human emotions and fears remain the same. The editor of this book has compiled a group of fascinating stories to illustrate this point. --Military Heritage (August 2010) Robert O'Neill edits I Am Soldier: War Stories from the Ancient World to the 20th Century, a powerful collection of first-person military observations crossing hundreds of years of experience around the world. The Bookwatch (January 2010) Every soldier in every war who has experienced the horrors of combat and lived to talk about it has a story to tell. It does not matter what period of history we are discussing, from ancient times to today's fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, human emotions and fears remain the same. The editor of this book has compiled a group of fascinating stories to illustrate this point. Military Heritage (August 2010) Robert O'Neill edits I Am Soldier: War Stories from the Ancient World to the 20th Century, a powerful collection of first-person military observations crossing hundreds of years of experience around the world. - The Bookwatch (January 2010) Every soldier in every war who has experienced the horrors of combat and lived to talk about it has a story to tell. It does not matter what period of history we are discussing, from ancient times to today's fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, human emotions and fears remain the same. The editor of this book has compiled a group of fascinating stories to illustrate this point. - Military Heritage (August 2010)

Robert O'Neill edits I Am Soldier: War Stories from the Ancient World to the 20th Century, a powerful collection of first-person military observations crossing hundreds of years of experience around the world. --The Bookwatch (January 2010) Every soldier in every war who has experienced the horrors of combat and lived to talk about it has a story to tell. It does not matter what period of history we are discussing, from ancient times to today's fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, human emotions and fears remain the same. The editor of this book has compiled a group of fascinating stories to illustrate this point. --Military Heritage (August 2010) Robert O'Neill edits I Am Soldier: War Stories from the Ancient World to the 20th Century, a powerful collection of first-person military observations crossing hundreds of years of experience around the world. The Bookwatch (January 2010) Every soldier in every war who has experienced the horrors of combat and lived to talk about it has a story to tell. It does not matter what period of history we are discussing, from ancient times to today's fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, human emotions and fears remain the same. The editor of this book has compiled a group of fascinating stories to illustrate this point. Military Heritage (August 2010) Robert O'Neill edits I Am Soldier: War Stories from the Ancient World to the 20th Century, a powerful collection of first-person military observations crossing hundreds of years of experience around the world. - The Bookwatch (January 2010) Every soldier in every war who has experienced the horrors of combat and lived to talk about it has a story to tell. It does not matter what period of history we are discussing, from ancient times to today's fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, human emotions and fears remain the same. The editor of this book has compiled a group of fascinating stories to illustrate this point. - Military Heritage (August 2010)

Robert O'Neill edits I Am Soldier: War Stories from the Ancient World to the 20th Century, a powerful collection of first-person military observations crossing hundreds of years of experience around the world. - The Bookwatch (January 2010) Every soldier in every war who has experienced the horrors of combat and lived to talk about it has a story to tell. It does not matter what period of history we are discussing, from ancient times to today's fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, human emotions and fears remain the same. The editor of this book has compiled a group of fascinating stories to illustrate this point. - Military Heritage (August 2010)

Robert O'Neill edits I Am Soldier: War Stories from the Ancient World to the 20th Century, a powerful collection of first-person military observations crossing hundreds of years of experience around the world. --The Bookwatch (January 2010) Every soldier in every war who has experienced the horrors of combat and lived to talk about it has a story to tell. It does not matter what period of history we are discussing, from ancient times to today's fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, human emotions and fears remain the same. The editor of this book has compiled a group of fascinating stories to illustrate this point. --Military Heritage (August 2010)

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A range of contributors, including Michael Whitby, Anne Curry, David Nicolle, Richard Bonney, Daniel Marston, Carter Malkesian, John Sweetman, Peter Simkins, Michael Hickey and others. Richard Holme, who wrote the introduction to this title, is a British military historian and former soldier, as well as a prolific author and well-known television presenter. He has published over twenty titles, including The Oxford Companion to Military History. He is a professor of Military & Security Studies at Cranfield University and the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.

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