{"product_id":"declarations-of-war-by-len-deighton-2404an","title":"Declarations of War by Len Deighton","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death. Includes a new fourteenth story which appears here for the very first time.  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. A bonus story, new to this edition, reveals a very different kind of war, played out in the present-day Mexican borderlands.  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41813544861770,"sku":"2404an","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2404an.jpg?v=1764228059","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/declarations-of-war-by-len-deighton-2404an","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}