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The 100 worst military disasters in history /
"The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History is a fascinating collection that educators, students, and historians will all find useful in helping them understand the causes and consequences of the most infamous military failures in history"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara, California :
ABC-CLIO,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Ancient Military Disasters
- 1. Megiddo
- 2. Marathon
- 3. Salamis
- 4. Syracuse Expedition
- 5. Gaugamela
- 6. Chang-Ping
- 7. Cannae
- 8. Zama
- 9. Pharsalus
- 10. Teutoburg Forest
- 11. Adrianople
- 12. Catalaunian Plains
- 13. Yarmouk
- 14. Baekgang
- Part II. Medieval Military Disasters
- 15. Tours
- 16. Hastings
- 17. Hattin
- 18. Kamikaze: The Second Mongol Invasion of Japan
- 19. Lake Boyang
- 20. Grünwald
- 21. Agincourt
- 22. Bosworth Field
- Part III. Military Disasters from the Early Modern Period
- 23. The Conquest of the Aztecs
- 24. Lepanto
- 25. The Spanish Armada
- 26. Pyongyang
- 27. Sekigahara
- 28. The Sack of Magdeburg
- 29. Breitenfeld
- 30. Nördlingen
- 31. Naseby
- 32. Rocroi
- 33. Ramillies
- 34. Poltava
- 35. Rossbach
- 36. Quebec
- 37. Kunersdorf
- 38. Quiberon Bay
- 39. The Siege of Pondicherry
- 40. Yorktown Campaign
- 41. Rivoli
- 42. The Nile
- 43. Second Battle of Zürich
- Part IV. Nineteenth-Century Military Disasters
- 44. Trafalgar
- 45. Jena-Auerstedt
- 46. Tippecanoe
- 47. Leipzig
- 48. The Alamo
- 49. San Jacinto
- 50. Siege of Nanjing
- 51. The Capture of New Orleans
- 52. The Vicksburg Campaign
- 53. Koeniggratz
- 54. Sedan
- 55. Battle of the Little Bighorn
- 56. Isandlwana
- 57. The Yalu
- 58. Manila Bay
- Part VI. Recent Military Disasters
- 59. Tsushima Strait
- 60. Tannenberg
- 61. The Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive
- 62. Verdun
- 63. Battle of the Somme
- 64. German U-Boat Offensive in World War I
- 65. Caporetto
- 66. Shanghai
- 67. Nomonhan
- 68. France 1940
- 69. The Battle of Britain
- 70. Crete
- 71. Pearl Harbor
- 72. Wake Island
- 73. Singapore
- 74. Bataan
- 75. Midway
- 76. The Destruction of PQ-17
- 77. The Dieppe Raid
- 78. El Alamein
- 79. Operation Torch
- 80. Guadalcanal
- 81. Kursk (Operation Citadel)
- 82. Ploesti Raid (Operation Tidal Wave)
- 83. The Second Schweinfurt Raid
- 84. Normandy Landings
- 85. The Philippine Sea
- 86. Imphal and Kohima
- 87. Operation Bagration
- 88. The Falaise Pocket
- 89. Battle of Arnhem
- 90. Operation Bodenplatte
- 91. Battle of Osan
- 92. Chinese Intervention
- 93. Battle of Dien Bien Phu
- 94. Ap Bac
- 95. The Six-Day War (1967 Arab-Israeli War)
- 96. The Tet Offensive
- 97. Lam Son 719
- 98. 1973 Arab-Israeli War-Sinai (Yom Kippur War)
- 99. Iran-Iraq War: The First Gulf War
- 100. Iraqi Freedom
- Index