Fifteen Decisive Battles Of The Western World
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Author |
: Edward Shepherd Creasy |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 1881 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32435077908200 |
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: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, from Marathon to Waterloo by : Edward Shepherd Creasy
Author |
: Barnes & Noble |
Publisher |
: Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 482 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0760754950 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780760754955 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fifteen Decisive Battles of the Western World by : Barnes & Noble
Author |
: Jim Lacey |
Publisher |
: Bantam |
Total Pages |
: 497 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345526977 |
ISBN-13 |
: 034552697X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Moment of Battle by : Jim Lacey
Presents the twenty most crucial battles of all time, explaining how each conflict represents a historical epoch that triggered profound transformations and significantly shaped the development of the modern world.
Author |
: Paul K. Davis |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 484 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195143663 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195143669 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis 100 Decisive Battles by : Paul K. Davis
Surveys the one hundred most decisive battles in world history from the Battle of Megiddo in 1469 B.C. to Desert Storm, 1991.
Author |
: Edward Shepherd Creasy |
Publisher |
: New York : A.L. Burt, [18--?] |
Total Pages |
: 524 |
Release |
: 1851 |
ISBN-10 |
: ONB:+Z254758804 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by : Edward Shepherd Creasy
The battle of Marathon -- Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse, 413 B.C. -- The battle of Arbela -- The battle of the Metaurus, 207 B.C. -- Victory of Arminius over the Roman legions under Varus, A.D. 9 -- The battle of Chalons, A.D. 451 -- The battle of Tours, A.D. 731 -- The battle of Hastings, A.D. 1066 -- Joan of Arc's victory over the English at Orleans, A.D. 1429 -- The defeat of the Spanish Armada, A.D. 1588, The battle of Blenheim, A.D. 1704, The battle of Pultowa, A.D. 1709 -- Victory of the American over Burgoyne at Saratoga, A.D. 1777 -- The battle of Valmy -- The battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Author |
: Edgar Vincent D'Abernon (Viscount) |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89035446459 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Eighteenth Decisive Battle of the World by : Edgar Vincent D'Abernon (Viscount)
Author |
: John Prados |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2011-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101516614 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101516615 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Normandy Crucible by : John Prados
A military intelligence expert examines the most formative battle of World War II. The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. Millions of soldiers battling for control of Europe were thrust onto the front lines of a massive war unlike any experienced in history. But the greatest of clashes would prove to be the crucible in which the outcome of World War II would be decided. Author John Prados tells the story of how and why the tactics and battle plans of Normandy proved so formative, and reconstructs the climactic Allied Normandy breakout from both sides of the battle lines.
Author |
: Victor Davis Hanson |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 546 |
Release |
: 2007-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307425188 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307425185 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Carnage and Culture by : Victor Davis Hanson
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values–the tradition of dissent, the value placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship–which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers. Offering riveting battle narratives and a balanced perspective that avoids simple triumphalism, Carnage and Culture demonstrates how armies cannot be separated from the cultures that produce them and explains why an army produced by a free culture will always have the advantage.
Author |
: Cathal Nolan |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 729 |
Release |
: 2017-01-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199874651 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199874654 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Allure of Battle by : Cathal Nolan
History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Nor has the "genius" of the so-called Great Captains - from Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great and Napoleon - play a major role. Wars are decided in other ways. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking," the hope that victory might be swift and wars brief. As he proves persuasively, however, such has almost never been the case. Even the major engagements have mainly contributed to victory or defeat by accelerating the erosion of the other side's defences. Massive conflicts, the so-called "people's wars," beginning with Napoleon and continuing until 1945, have consisted of and been determined by prolonged stalemate and attrition, industrial wars in which the determining factor has been not military but matériel. Nolan's masterful book places battles squarely and mercilessly within the context of the wider conflict in which they took place. In the process it help corrects a distorted view of battle's role in war, replacing popular images of the "battles of annihilation" with somber appreciation of the commitments and human sacrifices made throughout centuries of war particularly among the Great Powers. Accessible, provocative, exhaustive, and illuminating, The Allure of Battle will spark fresh debate about the history and conduct of warfare.
Author |
: Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy (Chief Justice of Ceylon.) |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 1851 |
ISBN-10 |
: NLS:B000357251 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World; from Marathon to Waterloo by : Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy (Chief Justice of Ceylon.)