The Battles that Changed History

✍ Scribed by Pratt, Fletcher

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013;1956
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Profiles of 16 decisive struggles from ancient and modern times. Gripping accounts range from Alexander the Great's overthrow of the Persian empire in the 4th century BC to World War II's Battle of Midway. Pratt depicts the circumstances leading up to the decisive clashes, the personalities involved, and the historically important aftermath. 27 maps.;Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; A Few Words in Introduction; 1. Arbela and the Man Who Would Be God; 2. The Red King at Beneventum; 3. Fighting in the Streets and the Future of Order; 4. Kadisiyah and the Cost of Conquest; 5. Las Navas de Tolosa and Why the Americas Were Conquered; 6. Jeanne d'Arc and the Non-Conquest of England; 7. Vienna and the Failure to Complete the Crescent; 8. Leyden and the Foundation of Sea Power; 9. Gustavus Adolphus and the End of the Middle Ages; 10. Interlude; the Day of Inadequate Decisions.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Maps
A Few Words in Introduction
1. Arbela and the Man Who Would Be God
2. The Red King at Beneventum
3. Fighting in the Streets and the Future of Order
4. Kadisiyah and the Cost of Conquest
5. Las Navas de Tolosa and Why the Americas Were Conquered
6. Jeanne d'Arc and the Non-Conquest of England
7. Vienna and the Failure to Complete the Crescent
8. Leyden and the Foundation of Sea Power
9. Gustavus Adolphus and the End of the Middle Ages
10. Interlude
the Day of Inadequate Decisions. 11. Frederick the Great and the Unacceptable Decision12. Quebec, Quiberon, America
13. Why the American Revolution Succeeded
14. Trafalgar, Austerlitz, and the Fall and Rise of Empire
15. The Things Decided at Vicksburg
16. More than Midway
Bibliography for Further Reading
Index.

✦ Subjects

Battles;Military;Military history;United States;