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Great Commanders And Their Battles #CEBHRD0002
 
Great Commanders And Their Battles
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Courage Books

The book, Great Commanders And Their Battles, chronicles twenty of history's greatest battles and the commanders who won them.  The commanders covered in this book were selected for their vital contributions to the development of battlefield tactics and war strategy over the last two thousand years.  This book depicts the crucial moments of each battle all vividly reconstructed in color.  The illustrations contained in this book highlight battle formations, weapons and the uniforms used by each side in order to explain the moves that lead to victory.  Each conquering commander is examined in detail with a mind towards understanding the formative influences that made him a leader who could depend on unswerving loyalty from his soldiers in battle.  This book also examines each commander's opponent in these twenty battles, contrasting the experience and performance of conqueror and conquered.  The major sections of this book are as follows: 1) Foreward by General Sir John Hackett; 2) Introduction by General Sir Jeremy Moore; 3) Alexander The Great (Battle of Gaugamela 1 October 331 BC); 4) Scipio Africanus (Battle of Zama October 202 BC); 5) Genghis Khan (Battle of the Indus 24 November 1221); 6) Henry V (Battle of Agincourt 25 October 1415); 7) Gonzalo De Cordoba (Battle of the Garigliano 29 December 1503; 8) Gustavus Adolphus (Battle of Lutzen 16 November 1632); 9) Turenne (Battle of Dunes 14 June 1658); 10) Marlborough (Battle of Oudenarde 11 July 1708; 11) Frederick The Great (Battle of Leuthen 5 December 1757); 12) George Washinton (Battle of Princeton 3 January 1777; 13) Napoleon (Battle of Wagram 5-6 July 1809; 14) Wellington (Battle of Salamanca 22 July 1812); 15) Robert E. Lee (Battle of Chancellorsville 1-6 May 1863; 16) Allenby (Battle of Beersheba 31 October - 7 Novemberr 1917; 17) Tomoyuki Yamashita (Battle of Singapore 8 - 15 February 1942; 18) Erwin Rommel (Battle of Gazala 26 May - 22 June 1942; 19) Erich Von Manstein (Third Battle of Kharkov 20 February - 18 March 1943); 20) William Slim (Battle of Meiktila / Mandalay 14 January - 28 March 1945; 21) Douglas Macarthur (The Inchon Landings 15 - 29 September 1950); 22) Moshe Dayan (The Sinai Campaign 29 October - 5 November 1956).  Included in this book are the following: 1) Approximately 82 black and white photographs; 2) 15 color photographs; 3) About 82 black and white illustrations; 4) Approximately 59 color illustrations and 5) 41 maps.  This book is 200 pages.  The author is Anthony Livesey.  Edition published in 1993.


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