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Two modern masters of military history make the case for the twenty most pivotal battles of all time, in a riveting trip through the ages to those moments when the fate of the world hung in the balance. Includes Marathon, Gaugamela, Zama, Teutoburger Wald, Adrianople, Yarmuk, Hastings, The Spanish Armada, Breitenfeld, Annus mirabilis, Saratoga, Trafalgar, Vicksburg, The Marne, The Battle of Britain, Midway, Kursk, Normandy, Dien Bien Phu, and Operations peach.
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Military history, Military art and science, Battles, History, Marathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C., Zama, Battle of, Tunisia, 202 B.C., Teutoburger Wald, Battle of, Germany, 9 A.D., Adrianople, Battle of, Edirne, Turkey, 378, Yarmuk River, Battle of the, Syria, 636, Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066, Armada, 1588, Breitenfeld, Battle of, Germany, 1631, Saratoga Campaign, N.Y., 1777, Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805, Marne, 1st Battle of the, France, 1914, Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940, World War, 1939-1945, Campaigns, Kursk, Battle of, Russia, 1943, Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam, 1954Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Moment of battle: the twenty clashes that changed the world
2013, Bantam Books
in English
- 1st ed.
034552697X 9780345526977
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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-456) and index.
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