Great Battles of All Time

Herausgeber: Black, Jeremy

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Produktbeschreibung

Twenty-five military historians from around the world describe the decisive conflicts that shaped history from the fifth century BCE to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 127mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780500286531
• ISBN-10: 0500286531
• Artikelnr.: 62233849

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Black is one of the UK's most respected and prolific historians. He is a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange, Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University and a renowned expert on the history of war. His recent books include France: A Short History, also published by Thames & Hudson.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors World map Introduction Ancient World Introduction 1 Marathon
(490 BC) 2 Salamis (480 BC) 3 Gaugamela (331 BC) 4 Cannae (216 BC) 5 Gaixia
(203 BC) 6 Actium (31 BC) 7 Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) 8 Adrianople (378)
Medieval World Introduction 9 Poitiers (732) 10 Lechfeld (955) 11 Hastings
(1066) 12 Manzikert (1071) 13 Hattin (1187) 14 Liegnitz (1241) 15 Hakata
Bay (1281) 16 Bannockburn (1314) 17 Crécy (1346) 18 Ankara (1402) 19
Agincourt (1415) 20 The Fall of Constantinople (1453) 21 Bosworth (1485)
Sixteenth Century Introduction 22 Flodden (1513) 23 Tenochtitlan (1521) 24
Pavia (1525) 25 Panipat (1526) 26 Mohács (1526) 27 Lepanto (1571) 28 The
Armada (1588) Seventeenth Century Introduction 29 Sekigahara (1600) 30
Breitenfeld (1631) 31 Nördlingen (1634) 32 Shanhaiguan (1644) 33 Naseby
(1645) 34 Vienna (1683) Eighteenth Century Introduction 35 Blenheim (1704)
36 Poltava (1709) 37 Belgrade (1717) 38 Rossbach (1757) 39 Plassey (1757)
40 Quebec (1759) 41 Saratoga (1777) 42 Yorktown (1781) 43 Jemappes (1792)
Nineteenth Century Introduction 44 Trafalgar (1805) 45 Leipzig (1813) 46
Waterloo (1815) 47 Ayacucho (1824) 48 Mexico City (1847) 49 Inkerman (1854)
50 Antietam (1862) 51 Gettysburg (1863) 52 Sadowa (1866) 53 Omdurman (1898)
Modern Times Introduction 54 Tsushima (1905) 55 Tannenberg (1914) 56
Jutland (1916) 57 Verdun (1916) 58 The Western Front (1918) 59 Battle of
Britain (1940) 60 Battle for Moscow (1941) 61 Stalingrad (1942-43) 62
Midway (1942) 63 Battle of the Atlantic (1940-43) 64 Battle for Normandy
(1944) 65 Operation Bagration (1944) 66 The American Air Attack on
Japan (1945) 67 Huai-Hai (1948-49) 68 Dien Bien Phu (1953-54) 69 The Tet
Offensive (1968) 70 The Iraq War (2003) Further Reading Sources of
Illustrations Sources of Quotations