History's Greatest Battles: Masterstrokes of War

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History's Greatest Battles covers the gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles to single engagements where regiments dug in and fought on, long past the time for surrender.

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Overview

History's Greatest Battles covers the gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles to single engagements where regiments dug in and fought on, long past the time for surrender.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781848588318
  • Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Limited
  • Publication date: 9/1/2012
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 917,709
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Nigel Cawthorne studied at University College, London, where he gained an Honours degree in physics, before turning to writing as a career. He has been a writer and editor for more than twenty-five years, the last twenty-one freelance. He has written, contributed to, and edited more than eighty books.

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Table of Contents

Marathon, 490 BC 10

Granicus, 334 BC 18

Cannae, 216 BC 27

Alesia, 52 BC 38

Teutoburger Wald, AD 9 48

Jerusalem, AD 70 56

Châlons-sur-Marne 451 69

Tours, 732 74

Hastings, 1066 79

Crécy, 1346 85

Agincourt, 1415 92

Constantinople, 1453 102

Bosworth, 1485 107

Lepanto, 1571 114

Blenheim, 1704 120

Culloden, 1746 132

Plassey, 1757 139

Quebec, 1759 145

Yorktown, 1781 152

Trafalgar, 1805 156

Austerlitz, 1805 162

Moscow, 1812 167

Waterloo, 1815 175

Sebastopol, 1854-5 185

Gettysburg, 1863 199

Vicksburg, 1863 210

Kut-al-Amara, 1916 216

Baghdad, 1917 222

Cambrai, 1917 227

Dunkirk, 1940 235

Tobruk, 1941 243

Crete, 1941 260

Alamein, 1942 270

Stalingrad, 1942-3 283

Kursk, 1943 306

Kohima and Imphal, 1944 311

D-Day, 1944 321

Iwo Jima, 1945 353

Berlin, 1945 359

Dien Bien Phu, 1954 369

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