The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost

by Cathal J. Nolan

Book Overview

History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Marathon, Cannae, Tours, Agincourt, Austerlitz, Sedan, Stalingrad--all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But were they? As Cathal J. Nolan demonstrates in this magisterial and sweeping work, victory in major wars usually has been determined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190931515
• ISBN13: 9780190931513
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 728 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"