How long does it take to read The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes?
The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes by Max Hastings takes about 9 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 25 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1985. 514 pages, about 141,350 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This collection is principally concerned with American and British conflicts with occasional forays into foreign armies - notably the Greeks, the Romans, and Napoleon's soldiers. Hastings has sought stories which illustrate the military condition through the ages, both on the battlefield and in the barracks: comic, eccentric, heroic, tragic.
Subjects: History, Military art and science, Anecdotes, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, Anthologie, Krijgsmacht
