Download or read book Acts Of War written by Richard Holmes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1989-08-04 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging and exhaustively researched book is an attempt to grasp the very nature of war. It takes us through the soldier's experience in its entirety - from the humiliation of basic training and the intense comradeship of army life, to the terror, isolation and exhaustion of battle.