Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the
nineteenth century, Edward S. Creasy's "Fifteen Decisive Battles of
the World" has been read and re-read for close to 150 years. It is
not only the authoritative account of each battle that makes
Creasy's work such a classic--it is his command of narrative, his
interest in human struggle, his profound deductions as to effects
of the battles, and his striving after truth. Furthermore, his
selections seem as wise and well-considered today as when "Fifteen
Decisive Battles" first appeared in 1851: Nobody since has made
better ones, nor given us better accounts. Apart from the
scholarship and literary skill of Creasy's book, there is another
reason it has endured: Creasy was essentially fair-minded. He had
been a judge, and when he became England's great military critic
and historian, he maintained a thoroughly judicial attitude. He was
not a British partisan, nor French, nor German--he was a
cosmopolitan observer of great events.Out of 2300 years, Creasy
only found fifteen battles which he called decisive in the highest
sense. He chose them not for the number of killed and wounded, nor
for their status in myth and lore, but because they fundamentally
changed the course of world history. In doing so, he made his book
a miniature military history of the western world, a classic that
will repay continued study for generations to come, as it has for
generations.
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