Название: History's Greatest Battles: Masterstrokes of War
Автор: Nigel Cawthorne
Издательство: Capella
ISBN: 9781848584372
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 313
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 7,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
Great battles mark history’s turning points, occurring as they do where cultures and ideologies clash.
While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds. Superior weaponry has sometimes brought victory, as at Plassey, while the superior generalship of a Napoleon, a Wellington, or a Marlborough has won the day on other occasions.
All the great battles in this book are pivotal in history: if any one of them had gone the other way, the world would have been a very different place. And none of them – with the exception, perhaps, of Iwo Jima and Berlin – was a foregone conclusion. Even Iwo Jima and Berlin mark significant points in larger conflicts whose results could easily, and catastrophically, have gone the other way.