WAR IS PART OF THE INTERCOURSE OF THE HUMAN RACE. The Invasion of Britain /Julius Caesar -- The Battle of Hastings / Charles Oman -- The French Crusade, 1249-1250 A.D. / Jean de Joinville -- The Battle of Arsouf / Charles Oman -- The Death of Montezuma / William H. Prescott -- Who called you here? / Eric Jens Petersen -- The Invaders / Richard Hillary -- The Massacre at Matanzas Inlet / Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. WAR IS THE PROVINCE OF DANGER, AND THEREFORE COURAGE ABOVE ALL THINGS IS THE FIRST QUALITY OF A WARRIOR. The Red Badge of Courage / Stephen Crane -- The Blocking of Zeebrugge / Sir Archibald Hurd -- Horatius at the bridge / Livy -- Shiloh, bloody Shiloh! / Lloyd Lewis -- How David slew Goliath / The Bible -- The Fight on the hilltop / Ernest Hemingway -- The Last battle of King Arthur / Sir Thomas Malory -- At all costs / Richard Aldington -- The Pass of Thermopylae / Charlotte Yonge -- The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon / Colonel Theodore Roosevelt -- Deguelo / Marquis James. WAR IS THE PROVINCE OF PHYSICAL EXERTION AND SUFFERING. Torture / T.E. Lawrence -- Tsushima / Frank Thiess -- The Parisian / Alden Brooks -- The March to the sea / Xenophon -- Vale of tears / Laurence Stallings -- The Odyssey of three slavs / Alden Brooks. WAR IS THE PROVINCE OF UNCERTAINTY. Gold from Crete / C.S. Forester -- Harper's Ferry / Leonard Ehrlich -- Custer / Frederic F. Van de Water -- An Egg for the major / C.S. Forester -- The Merrimac and the Monitor / Mary Johnston -- Manila Bay / Admiral George Dewey -- Tank fighting in Libya / Alan Moorehead -- Blowing up a train / T.E. Lawrence -- WAR IS THE PROVINCE OF CHANCE. Lisette at Eylau / General Marbot -- The Stolen railroad train / Marquis James -- Turn about / William Faulkner -- The Trojan horse / Virgil -- Air battle / Charles Nordhoff and James N. Hall -- The People's war / Count Leo Tolstoy -- The Wrong road / Marquis James -- The Corvette Claymore / Victor Hugo -- Miracle at Dunkirk / Arthur D. Divine. WAR IS THE PROVINCE OF FRICTION. Gallipoli / Major-General John Frederick C. Fuller -- The Stars in their courses / Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr. -- Waterloo / Victor Hugo -- The Retreat from Caporetto / Ernest Hemingway -- The Battle of Cannae / Livy -- The Victory of the Americans at Saratoga / Sir Edward S. Creasy -- The Lost battalion / Thomas M. Johnson and Fletcher Pratt -- WAR DEMANDS RESOLUTION, FIRMNESS, AND STAUNCHNESS -- Bagration's rearguard action / Count Leo Tolstoy -- After the final victory / Agnes Smedley -- Her privates we / Private 19022 -- Borodino / Count Leo Tolstoy -- Trafalgar / Robert Southey -- The Battle of Atlanta / Lloyd Lewis -- The Cavalry charge at Omdurman / Winston Churchill -- The Sun of Austerlitz / General Marbot -- Oriskany: 1777 / Walter D. Edmonds -- The Marines at Soissons / Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr. -- The Battle of Ypres / Frank Richards -- WAR IS FOUGHT BY HUMAN BEINGS -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce. Joshua's conquest of Jericho / The Bible -- The Taking of Lungtungpen / Rudyard Kipling -- Ball-of-Fat / Guy de Maupassant -- Hands across the sea / Alexander Woollcott -- I bombed the barges / The Captain of a Blenheim Bomber -- The Italian debacle at Guadalajara / F.G. Tinker, Jr. -- Buchmendel / Stefan Zweig -- I Take Vladivostok / Frazier Hunt -- Up periscope! / An Officer of H.M. Submarine Sturgeon -- Father Duffy / Alexander Woollcott -- The War years / James Hilton -- Soldiers of the Republic / Dorothy Parker -- The Chauffeurs of Madrid / Ernest Hemingway -- A Man's bound to fight / Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr. -- Squadron scramble / Byron Kennerly -- A Name and a flag / Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr. -- A Personal view of Waterloo / Stendhal -- Falling through space / Richard Hillary -- Pearl Harbor / Blake Clark -- Three men on a raft / Harold F. Dixon -- Midway / Walter B. Clausen.