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The battles that changed history.
- Title
- The battles that changed history.
- Author
- Pratt, Fletcher, 1897-1956.
- Publication
- Garden City, N.Y. : Hanover House, [1956]
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| Text | Request in advance | 904 P88 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 348 pages
- Subject
- Contents
- Arbela and the man who would be God -- The Red King at Beneventum -- Fighting in the streets and the future of order -- Kadisiyah and the cost of conquest -- Las Navas de Tolosa and why the Americans were conquered -- Jeanne d'Arc and the non-conquest of England -- Vienna and the failure to complete the Crescent -- Leyden and the foundation of sea power -- Gustavus Adolphus and the end of the Middle Ages -- Interlude; the day of inadequate decisions -- Frederick the Great and the unacceptable decision -- Quebec, Quiberon, America -- Why the American Revolution succeeded -- Trafalgar, Austerlitz, and the fall and rise of empire -- The things decided at Vicksburg -- More than Midway.
- LCCN
- 56009092
- OCLC
- ocm00392785
- SCSB-3975774
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries