The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
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History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Marathon, Cannae, Tours, Agincourt, Austerlitz, Sedan, Stalingrad--all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But were they? As Cathal J. Nolan demonstrates in this magisterial and sweeping work, victory in major wars usually has been determined...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0190931515
ISBN13:9780190931513
Release Date:March 2019
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:728 Pages
Weight:1.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"
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