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Subject(s)

• Military history—Anecdotes [Browse]
• Battles—History—Anecdotes [Browse]
• Military art and science—History—Anecdotes [Browse]

Summary note

Provides accounts of fourteen significant military upsets from throughout history, and includes archival images.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Salamis, 480 BCE : Greek audacity and courage defy the world's greatest empire
• Issus, 333 BCE : Alexander the Great leads a martial storm into mighty Persia
• Cannae, 216 BCE : Hannibal's masterpiece thrashes Rome and creates a legend
• Carrhae, 53 BCE : Roman arms become trapped between the scorching sun and the wrath of Parthia
• Alesia, 52 BCE : Caesar shows his enemies the meaning of Roman tenacity
• Tricamarum, 533 : Byzantium's finest take on the Germanic corsairs of North Africa
• Agincourt, 1415 : French chivalry endures the flight of the Bodkins on St. Crispin's Day
• Narva, 1700 : a king's coming of age meets Sweden's finest hour
• Leuthen, 1757 : Frederick the Great steals victory from the jaws of defeat
• Auerstedt, 1806 : France's Iron Marshall avenges the disaster of Rossbach
• Chancellorsville, 1863 : Hooker came, he saw, he got conquered
• Rorke's Drift, 1879 : modern arms and raw nerve achieve the incredible
• Tannenberg, 1914 : Russia is impaled on the spike of the pickelhaube
• Singapore, 1942 : a brilliant Japanese gambit steals the Gibraltar of the East.

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ISBN

• 9781592334056
• 1592334059

LCCN

^^2009038796

OCLC

437186884

RCP

H - S

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