Mammoth Book of Battles - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1841190845 ISBN 13 : 9781841190846

Editeur : Robinson Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

An anthology of gripping accounts of the battles that made the modern world, from Wounded Knee to Desert Storm, described by historians including John Keegan, Paul M. Kennedy and Alan Clark. Here are the great commanders, the strategy and the tactics, the decisive victories and cataclysmic disasters of two world wars, as well as wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the Falklands and elsewhere. #FDEHere too is the awesome scale and vicious destructuive power of modern warfare across battlefields, ranging from Flanders to Basra, the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East and the fearsome jungles of South East Asia and the Pacific.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the massacre at Wounded Knee to the high-tech victory of Operation Desert Storm, this book presents forty gripping accounts of the battles that made the modern world. They are rendered in superb detail and analysis by such award-winning historians as John Keegan, Alan Clark, and Paul Kennedy. Here are the great conflicts of the two World Wars, the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the Falklands, and Israel. The Mammoth Book of Battles brings to life for all military historians the awesome scale and destructive power of modern warfare.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Robinson Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841190845
• ISBN 13: 9781841190846
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Éditeur: Lewis Jon E.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Isacco srl; http://www.isacco.it; ; Via L. Pirandello, 3; Telgate; 24060; Italie