The Shape Of Battle: Six Campaigns From Hastings To Helmand Allan Mallinson Penguin (Transworld) Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

One Of Our Most Distinguished Military Historians Tells The Story Six Defining Battles Every Battle Is Different Each Takes Place In A Context - War Campaign Weapons However Across Centuries Whether Fought With Sticks And Stones Or Advanced Technology Have Much Common Fighting After All An Intensely Human Affair Nature Doesn\ T Change So Why Were As They Were? What Gave Them Their Shape? Did Go Did: Victory For Side Defeat Other? Exploring Significant Feats Arms Which Occurred Factors That Determined Precise Form Course Shape Answers These Fundamental Questions About Waging Hastings (1066) Everyone Knows Date But Not Perhaps Remarkable Strategic Background Towton (1461) Bloodiest To Be On English Soil Waterloo (1815) More Written Than Any Other Rarely Its True Culminating Longest \ Modern\ Times D-Day (1944) Within Larger Operation (\ Overlord\ ) Longest-Planned Complex Offensive History Imjin River (1951) This Little Known Korean Was British Army\ S Last Large-Scale Defensive Panther\ Claw (2009) Has Yet Receive Official Distinction Being One: Conducted Over Weeks Trappings 21St-Century Warfare Whose Face At Resembled Middle Ages Polemic It Try Argue Case Lets Narratives Speak Themselves Σελίδες: 416 Διαστάσεις: 12 7X12 7Cm