Favorite battle or war.

Hi Deano. I moved this topic from "Ancient Mediterranean and Europe" to "All Battles". I don't have a single favourite battle, but I love ones involving unorthodox tactics, or sheer simplistic brilliance. The Battle of Mohi, Battle of the Saw, Siege of Volohoi and others come to mind. Cannae and Agincourt have always been favourites of mine too.
In terms of wars, you can't go past the Second Punic War.

Sorry I diidnt know how to change it into diffrent categorys I just made it and it came here.And your right Urlich wars that dont happen are the best.

The battle of Kulikovo, Stirling bridge and the battale of Lissa...Scottish war of indipendence

Edited by Illirac - 15-Oct-2007 at 14:44

None. Designing wars can be fun, but it gets gruesome when people die or get hurt.

Originally posted by Knights Hi Deano. I moved this topic from "Ancient Mediterranean and Europe" to "All Battles". I don't have a single favourite battle, but I love ones involving unorthodox tactics, or sheer simplistic brilliance. The Battle of Mohi, Battle of the Saw, Siege of Volohoi and others come to mind. Cannae and Agincourt have always been favourites of mine too. In terms of wars, you can't go past the Second Punic War.

Edited by Shield-Wall - 19-Oct-2007 at 13:16

Favourite "wars" -

Edited by Darius of Parsa - 30-Jan-2008 at 02:29

I've always found WWI fascinating, if only just because of the literature that it inspired (both directly about it, and the writers who participated in it and were influenced deeply by it). Many of the members of the Lost Generation American expatriate writers in Paris in the 1920's were war vets; among them F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and most famously, Ernest Hemingway.

Good (fictional) books about WWI:

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos

Lots of good poetry came out of the war as well, as exemplified by the works of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, amongst many others.

Rupert Brooke, V. The Soldier

"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven."

I like to think that poem wasn't just about England, but about any young soldier's feelings of his nation, home and pride as he goes off to the front.

Quite right. Anther irony is that Brooke's war poems were of an optimistic nature, while the later poetic works of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are much darker and more in line with the later historical view of the War. Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth might be one of the world's "darkest" war poems, if it weren't overshadowed by Sassoon's S.I.W. (Self Inflicted Wounds)
I've actually visited that website, gcle2003, when I was taking a seminar on Georgian-era British poetry.