Moment of battle: the twenty clashes that changed the world 9780345526991, 9780345526977, 034552697X, 0345526996

Two modern masters of military history make the case for the twenty most pivotal battles of all time, in a riveting trip

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English Pages 478 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Year 2013

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Moment of battle: the twenty clashes that changed the world
 9780345526991, 9780345526977, 034552697X, 0345526996

Table of contents :
Marathon: Athens saves Western civilization (490 BC) --
Gaugamela : Alexander creates a new world (311 BC) --
Zama: an empire in the balance (202 BC) --
Teutoburger Wald: the division of Europe (9 AD) --
Adrianople: the end of Roman supremacy (378 AD) --
Yarmuk (636 AD) --
Hastings (1066 AD) --
The Spanish Armada (1588 AD) --
Breitenfeld (1631 AD) --
Annus mirabilis (1759 AD) --
Saratoga (1777 AD) --
Trafalgar (1805 AD) --
Vicksburg (1863 AD) --
The Marne (1914 AD) --
The Battle of Britain (1940 AD) --
Midway (1942 AD) --
Kursk (1943 AD) --
Normandy (1944 ad) --
Dien Bien Phu (1954 AD) --
Operations peach (2003 AD).

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