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Masters of the battlefield : great commanders from the classical age to the Napoleonic era /

""The personality of a general is indispensable, "" Napoleon once said. ""He is the head, he is the all, of an army."" In Masters of the Battlefield, Paul K. Davis offers vivid portraits of fifteen legendary military leaders whose brilliance on and off the bat...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Paul K., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
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505 0 |a Introduction: one man's gifts -- Epaminondas (418?-362 bc) -- Alexander (356-323 BC) -- Han Xin (?-196 BC) -- Hannibal (247-182 BC) -- Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC) -- Gaius Julius Caesar (100-48 BC) -- Belisarius (505?-568) -- Chinggis khan/subedei (1162?-1227) -- Jan Zizka (1360?-1424) -- Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) -- Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632) -- John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) -- Frederick II (The Great) (1712-1786) -- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) -- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) -- Lessons learned. 
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