Cathal Nolan: The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost (2019)
ISBN: 9780190931513
Cathal Nolan: The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost (2019)
ISBN: 9780190931513
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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."
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ISBN
9780190931513
Author
Cathal Nolan
Pages
728
Binding
Soft cover
Publisher
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Date of publication
2019
Format
Book
Language
English
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 in other ways. Even the most legendarily lopsided of battles did not necessarily decide their outcomes.
