Great battles and their great generals (fülszöveg)
In his foreword to Great Battles and Their Great Generals, Drew Middleton says, "This is a guide to humanity's most awesome experience. The spearmen at Cannae, the valiant Spaniards of the armada, Morgan's sharpshooters at Saratoga, the thin red line at Waterloo alI added something to the experience of the race, something misguided and terrible, but with lessons of fortitude and bravery."
Harry Roskolenko has collected the accounts of 13 of the greatest battles of history beginning with the Battle of Cannae in the Punic Wars to the Inchon Landing in Korea more than 2000 years later. Their names thunder through history—the Spanish Armada, the Battle of Saratoga, Waterloo, Gettysburg, the Battle of the Marne, Tobruk and El Alamein, the Normandy landing, Stalingrad, Inchon.
Each bloody clash is frequently provided in two versions, one by a general in the field, the other by a military historian.
Some of the greatest commanders in history have been involved in the battles described in this book. The reader can evaluate for himself the personalities and strategies of the military elite, the genius generals of all time: Hannibal, Sir Francis Drake, the Duke of Marlborough, General Andrew Jackson, Marshal Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant, Marshal Joffre and General Gallieni, and on to the great leaders of World War II and the Korean War.
Wars have been initiated by fear, courage, moral imperatives, greed, honor and self-defense. Whatever the reason, each of these conflicts looms large in historical significance, and is utterly absorbing.
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