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Moment of battle : the twenty clashes that changed the world / James Lacey and Williamson Murray.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345526977 (hc) :
- Physical Description: xv, 478 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2013.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Marathon: Athens saves Western civilization (490 BC) -- Gaugamela : Alexander creates a new world (311 BC) -- Zama: an empire in the balance (202 BC) -- Teutoburger Wald: the division of Europe (9 AD) -- Adrianople: the end of Roman supremacy (378 AD) -- Yarmuk: the Islamic conquest begins (636 AD) -- Hastings: the remaking of Europe (1066 AD) -- The Spanish Armada: miracle at sea (1588 AD) -- Breitenfeld: the creation of modern war (1631 AD) -- Annus mirabilis: the rise of British supremacy (1759 AD) -- Saratoga: the victory of amateurs (1777 AD) -- Trafalgar: Napoleon's plans thwarted (1805 AD) -- Vicksburg: breaking the confederacy (1863 AD) -- The Marne: the end of old Europe (1914 AD) -- The Battle of Britain: the Nazis stopped (1940 AD) -- Midway: Imperial Japan stopped (1942 AD) -- Kursk: the end of the drang nach osten (1943 AD) -- Normandy: the dath knell for Nazi Germany (1944) -- Dien Bien Phu: Imperialism defeated (1954 AD) -- Operations peach: the drive for Baghdad (2003 AD) -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Subject: | Battles. Military art and science > History. Military history. |
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James Lacey is the author most recently of The First Clash, about the battle of Marathon, and is a widely published defense analyst who has written forTime, National Review, Foreign Affairs, and other publications. He currently teaches at the Marine Corps War College and Georgetown University.
Williamson Murray is the author of a wide selection of articles and books, including, with Allan R. Millett, the acclaimedA War to Be Won, an operational history of World War II, and has held numerous distinguished academic chairs. He is presently a defense analyst at the Potomac Institute and teaches at the Naval War College.
