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The seventy great battles of all time / edited by Jeremy Black.

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The seventy great battles of all time / edited by Jeremy Black.
Publication
London : Thames & Hudson, 2005.

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Black, Jeremy.
Description
304 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 27 cm.
Summary
Twenty-five military historians from around the world describe the decisive conflicts that shaped history from the fifth century BC to the present.
Subject
Battles > History
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-296) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Marathon (490 BC) -- Salamis (480 BC) -- Gaugamela (331 BC) -- Cannae (216 BC) -- Gaixia (203 BC) -- Actium (31 BC) -- Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) -- Adrianople (378) -- Poitiers (732) -- Lechfeld (955) -- Hastings (1066) -- Manzikert (1071) -- Hattin (1187) -- Liegnitz (1241) -- Hakata Bay (1281) -- Bannockburn (1314) -- Crecy (1346) -- Ankara (1402) -- Agincourt (1415) -- The fall of Constantinople (1453) -- Bosworth (1485) -- Flodden (1513) -- Tenochtitlan (1521) -- Pavia (1525) -- Panipat (1526) -- Mohacs (1526) -- Lepanto (1571) -- The Armada (1588) -- Sekigahara (1600) -- Breitenfeld (1631) -- Nordlingen (1634) -- Shanhalguan (1644) -- Naseby (1645) -- Vienna (1683) -- Blenheim (1704) -- Poltava (1709) -- Belgrade (1717) -- Rossbach (1757) -- Plassey (1757) -- Quebec (1759) -- Saratoga (1777) -- Yorktown (1781) -- Jemappes (1792) -- Trafalgar (1805) -- Leipzig (1813) -- Waterloo (1815) -- Ayacucho (1824) -- Mexico City (1847) -- Inkerman (1854) -- Antietam (1862) -- Gettysburg (1863) -- Sadowa (1866) -- Omdurman (1898) -- Tsushima (1905) -- Tannenberg (1914) -- Jutland (1916) -- Verdun (1916) -- The Western front (1918) -- Battle of Britain (1940) -- Battle for Moscow (1941) -- Stalingrad (1942-43) -- Midway (1942) -- Battle of the Atlantic (1940-43) -- Battle for Normandy (1944) -- Operation Bagration (1944) -- The American air attack on Japan (1945) -- Huai-Hai (1948-49) -- Dien Bien Phu (1953-54) -- The Tet offensive (1968) -- The Iraq war (2003).
ISBN
0500251258 (hbk.)
LCCN
9780500251256
OCLC
61425205
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library