A history of war in 100 battles
"Their very names--Gettysburg, Waterloo, Stalingrad--evoke images of great triumph and equally great suffering, moments when history seemed to hang in the balance. Considered in relation to each other, such battles--and others of less immediate renown--offer insight into the changing nature of...
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| 505 | 0 | |a The truth of battle -- Leadership. Battle of Gaugamela ; Battle of Cannae ; Battle of Actium ; Battle of the Milvian Bridge ; Battle of Hastings ; Battle of Zhongdu ; Battle of Bannockburn ; Battle of Mohács ; Siege of Vienna ; Battle of Valmy ; Battle of Trafalgar ; Battle of Austerlitz ; Battle of Maipú ; Battle of Volturno ; Battle for Warsaw ; Third battle of Kharkov -- Against the odds. Thermopylae and Salamis ; Battle of Zela ; Battle of Edington ; Battle of Clontarf ; Battle of Legnano ; Battle of the River Salado ; Battle of Agincourt ; Siege of Belgrade ; Battle of Plassey ; Battle of Leuthen ; Rorke's Drift ; Battle of Adwa ; Battle of Omdurman ; Fall of Singapore ; Battle of Santa Clara -- Innovation. ; Battle of Leuctra; Battle of Carrhae ; Battle of Ain Jalut ; Battle Crécy ; Battle of Lepanto ; The Spanish Armada ; Battle of Breitenfeld ; Battle of Naseby ; Battle of Poltava ; Battle of Solferino-San Martino ; Battle of Königgrätz (Sadowa) ; Battle of Shangani ; Battle of Tsushima ; Third battle of Edirne ; Third battle of Cambrai ; Battle of France ; Battle of Britain ; Pearl Harbor ; Battle of the Atlantic ; Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; Operation Desert Storm -- Deception. The fall of Troy ; Battle of Mount Vesuvius ; Battle of Roncesvalles ; Battle of Kleidion-Strumitsa ; Battle of Manzikert ; Battle of Lake Peipus ; Fall of Tenochtitlán ; Battle of Blenheim ; Battle of Hohenfriedberg ; Battle of the Plains of Abraham ; Siege of Yorktown ; Battle of the Little Big Horn ; Battle of Alam Halfa ; The Normandy Invasion ; Operation Bagration ; The Six Day War ; Tet Offensive -- Courage in the face of fire. Battle of Marathon ; Battle of the Catalaunian Fields (Châlons) ; Battle of Poitiers-Tours ; Battle of Lechfeld ; Battle of Arsuf ; Battle of Borodino ; Battle of Leipzig ; Battle of Navarino Bay ; First battle of Manassas (Bull Run) ; Battle of Gettysburg ; Battle of Tacna ; The Battle of Verdun ; First day of the Somme ; Guadalcanal ; Stalingrad ; Fourth battle of Monte Cassino -- In the nick of time. Battle of Kadesh ; Battle of Zama ; Battle of Adrianople ; Fall of Constantinople ; Battle of Sekigahara ; Battle of Marengo ; Battle of Waterloo ; Battle of Tannenberg ; The first battle of the Marne ; Defence of Tsaritsyn ; Sink the Bismarck ; Battle of Midway ; Battle of Kursk ; Battle of Dien Bien Phu ; Battle for the Falklands | |
| 520 | |a "Their very names--Gettysburg, Waterloo, Stalingrad--evoke images of great triumph and equally great suffering, moments when history seemed to hang in the balance. Considered in relation to each other, such battles--and others of less immediate renown--offer insight into the changing nature of armed combat, advances in technology, shifts in strategy and thought, as well as altered geopolitical landscapes. | ||
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