History's Greatest Battles
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History's Greatest Battles

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History's Greatest Battles

About this book

Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring as they do where cultures and ideologies clash. While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds.All the great battles in this book are pivotal in history: if any one of them had gone the other way, the world would have been a very different place. And none of them - with the exception, perhaps, of Iwo Jima and Berlin - was a foregone conclusion.From the battle of Marathon in 490bc, when the vastly outnumbered Athenian army turned back an invasion of the mighty Persian empire, up to the Vietnamese defeat of the French army at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the battles in this book demonstrate that God is not always on the side of the big battalions. History's Greatest Battles covers the whole gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles involving hundreds of ships and thousands of men, to single regiments who dug in and fought on long past the time when surrender would have been honourable.

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. Marathon, 490 BC
  4. Granicus, 334 BC
  5. Cannae, 216 BC
  6. Alesia, 52 BC
  7. Teutoburger Wald, AD 9
  8. Jerusalem, AD 70
  9. Châlons-sur-Marne. 451
  10. Tours, 732
  11. Hastings, 1066
  12. Crécy, 1346
  13. Agincourt, 1415
  14. Constantinople, 1453
  15. Bosworth, 1485
  16. Lepanto, 1571
  17. Blenheim, 1704
  18. Culloden, 1746
  19. Plassey, 1757
  20. Quebec, 1759
  21. Yorktown, 1781
  22. Trafalgar, 1805
  23. Austerlitz, 1805
  24. Moscow, 1812
  25. Waterloo, 1815
  26. Image Section
  27. Sebastopol, 1854–5
  28. Gettysburg, 1863
  29. Vicksburg, 1863
  30. Kut-al-Amara, 1916
  31. Baghdad, 1917
  32. Cambrai, 1917
  33. Dunkirk, 1940
  34. Tobruk, 1941
  35. Crete, 1941
  36. Alamein, 1942
  37. Stalingrad, 1942–3
  38. Kursk, 1943
  39. Kohima and Imphal, 1944
  40. D-Day, 1944
  41. Iwo Jima, 1945
  42. Berlin, 1945
  43. Dien Bien Phu, 1954
  44. Copyright