Great Military Disasters: From Cannae to Stalingrad
Author(s): Julian Spilsbury
Great Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts. From the French army's failure to understand the impact of new technology at Crécy to Hitler's blatant overconfidence at Stalingrad, military historian Julian Spilsbury provides thrilling accounts of each disaster, covering exactly what went wrong, how and why. Of course, a disastrous outcome for one side meant victory for another, so as well as exploring the reasons the conflict ended in disaster, Great Military Disasters also reveals the key to victory. Eyewitness quotations add another dimension to this intriguing study of human incompetence of the gravest kind.
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- : Quercus
- : Quercus Publishing Plc
- : 01 January 2010
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Julian Spilsbury
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : en
- : 207
- : 50 b&w images
More About The Product
Julian Spilsbury is the military obituarist for the Daily Telegraph and a script writer for The Bill, Taggart and Casualty. He is the author of The Indian Mutiny and The Thin Red Line: An Eyewitness History of the Crimean War.
Introduction. Mount Tabor 1125 BC. Syracuse 415-413 BC. Cannae 216 BC. Teutoburger Wald AD 9. Bannockburn 1314. Crecy 1346. Flodden 1513. Pavia 1524. Saratoga 1777. Moscow 1812. Leipzig 1813. Fredericksburg 1862. Sedan 1870. Little Bighorn 1876. Isandhlwana 1879. Tannenberg 1914. Verdun 1916. The Somme 1916. Stalingrad 1942. Dien Bien Phu 1954. Index. Picture Credits.
