The Sword and The Pen : Selections from the World's Greatest Military Writings

282pp. In red cloth-covered boards with black titles on spine (very slightly bruised at head of spine). Internally clean, neat, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (very slightly bumped at head of spine, one corner with a tiny rub). An anthology of writing from Ancient Greece onwards containing extracts so varied and enlightening on every aspect of warfare, economic and sociological as well as strategic and tactical, that it will interest the general reader almost as much as the specialist.