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The Guinness Book of Decisive Battles

Long-term outcome of each battle, but also vividly brings to life the course of the fighting, the commanders and participants, and the significance of innovations in weaponry. Numerous maps help to explain tactics and strategy, while the many illustrations add a further dramatic dimension to this stimulating book.

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  • "Long-term outcome of each battle, but also vividly brings to life the course of the fighting, the commanders and participants, and the significance of innovations in weaponry. Numerous maps help to explain tactics and strategy, while the many illustrations add a further dramatic dimension to this stimulating book."@en
  • "Country. Other battles of the Ancient World include Zama, where Carthaginian power was finally crushed; Actium, which ushered in the Rome of the emperors; and Adrianople, which first demonstrated the potential of the mounted warrior to defeat the legions of Rome. Moving onto the Medieval World, famous battlessuch as Hastings and the fall of Constantinople - are set beside less well-known but equally crucial encounters such as Lechfeld and Ain Jalut. Then there are the."@en
  • "In this exciting and thought-provoking book, military historian Geoffrey Regan has selected fifty of the most decisive battles of world history. As the author explains, the decisiveness of these battles lies not only in the completeness of victory or defeat for either side, but also in the longer-term impact they have had on the course of history. The scope of the book is majestic. It starts with Salamis, where the Greeks put an end to Persian attempts to overwhelm their."@en
  • "Great conflicts of the colonial age, from Plassey to Quebec, and battles such as Saratoga and Sedan that witnessed the birth of nations. From the present century, key engagements of the World Wars - including the Marne, Midway, El Alamein and Stalingrad - are featured, as are more recent conflicts whose reverberations are still very much with us - Dien Bien Phu, the Six Days War, and Operation Desert Storm. Geoffrey Regan not only examines the strategic context and."@en

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  • "Dictionaries"@en
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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Surveys"

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  • "Rozhodující bitvy : padesát dvě bitvy, které změnily svět : od Salaminy k válce v Perském zálivu"
  • "Rozhodující bitvy : padesát dvě bitvy, které změnily svět od Salamíny k válce v Perském zálivu"
  • "The Guinness Book of Decisive Battles"@en
  • "The Guinness book of decisive battles"
  • "The Guinness book of decisive battles"@en
  • "The Guinness Book of Decisive Battles : Fifty Battles that changed the World from Salamis to the Gulf War"
  • "The Guinness book of decesive battles"

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