Great Battles

by Christer Jörgensen and Parragon Books

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445411296
• ISBN13: 9781445411293
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Parragon
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Great and I want more!

My son loves this book. In general, he likes military history that focuses on the actual battles, he's not much interested in the politics behind them. He especially likes books that include maps of terrain and troop movement with the text. Can anyone recommend more books like this one (Great Battles) and/or that meet the above requirements? Thanks!

Interesting with many illustrations

OK, now whenever you make a list of the X number of most decisive battles in history, you are going to have people complaining that you included a battle that you should not have, or excluded one you should have included. So, you, the reader, will just have to accept that this is the author's list of the most decisive, or at least most interesting battles of all time. Anyway, this interesting book includes information on thirty different battles - 11 from the Age of the Sword (Marathon, Salamis, Gaugamela, Cannae, Alesia, Andrianople, Tours/Poitiers, Hastings, Hattin, Tannenberg, and Agincourt), 9 from the Age of Gunpowder (Constantinople, Lepanto, the Great Armada, Lutzen, Blenheim, Saratoga, Trafalgar, Austerlitz, and Waterloo), and 10 from the Age of the Rifle (Antietam, Gettysburg, Verdun, the Somme, the Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Midway, Normandy, the Tet Offensive, and Operation Iraqi Freedom). Each battle begins with a list of facts (detailing who, what, where, when, why, and outcome), and then goes on to chronicle the battle. Numerous color images are included, with the crowning one being a large and colorful two-page map of the battle. Along the way, the reader is treated to many highly informative sidebars. Overall, I found this to be an interesting and informative read. I like the many illustrations, which keeps the book from seeming dull and lifeless. Yep, this is an interesting book, one that I do not hesitate to recommend.