Fifteen Decisive Battles Of The World - From Marathon To Waterloo (Paperback, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Da Capo Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1994
First published:	April 1994
Authors:	Edward Creasy
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	404
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-80559-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-306-80559-6
Barcode:	9780306805592

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