The allure of battle a history of how wars have been won and lost
"History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-tu...
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
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