The Mammoth Book of Battles
From the relief of Ladysmith during the Boer War to the decisive use of high technology and AirLand...
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From the relief of Ladysmith during the Boer War to the decisive use of high technology and AirLand doctrines during Operation Desert Storm, here are more than forty gripping accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson and Anthony Farrar-Hockley.Here are the great commanders of our century, the strategy and tactics, the victories and disasters of two world wars, as well as wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the Falklands and elsewhere. Here too are many insights into the art and science of generalship and military organization as they have evolved to meet the awesome scale and vicious destructive power of modern warfare across battlefields ranging from Flanders to Kuwait, North Africa to the Russian steppes, and the jungles of Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
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