Declarations of War

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 C...