Sallyndrah Dragonái, Introduction

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Channel: David Pope · 2018 · Entertainment

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This is a read through of the Book Series Sallyndrah Dragonái: A Novel Perspective of the Psychology of Warfare, as read by the Author, D. S. Pope.

Sallyndrah Dragonái, Episode 1, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sallyndrah-Dragonai-Perspective-Psychology-Anachron-ebook/dp/B01MG8WH79/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517451804&sr=8-1 

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Footnotes:

John Keegan, The Face of Battle, New York: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 29-31.

Geoffrey Hosking, Russia: People and Empire, Harvard, 1997.

Christopher Hibbert, Agincourt, New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000 (1964).

“Over the Hills and Far Away”, Traditional English Song, c. 1720; other versions say “forty shillings”. http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/english/harknowt.htm 

John C. McManus, The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach, New York: Penguin Books, 2015.

Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004 (1992).

Douglas Fermer, Sedan 1870: The Eclipse of France, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Books, 2008.

GEN George S. Patton, Jr., USA, War as I Knew It, Annotated by COL Paul D. Harkins.  New York: Bantam Books, 1980 (1947), p. 338.

Alexander A. Vandegrift, Once a Marine: The Memoirs of General A. A. Vandegrift, Commandant of the U. S. Marines in WWII, New York: Ballantine Books, 1964, p. 133.

Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade, New York: Penguin Books, 1958 (1953).

Nadezhda Durova, The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars.  Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 1988 (1836); Jakob Walter, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing, 1991 (1856/1932).

David M. Glantz, Before Stalingrad: Barbarossa – Hitler’s Invasion of Russia 1941, Gloucestershire, UK: Tempus Publishing, 2003.

John Keegan, The First World War, New York: Random House, 2000 (1998). 

Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August, New York: Ballantine Books/Presidio Press, 1962.

William Goldman, The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, 2007 (1973), p. 179.

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