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Author Pratt, Fletcher, 1897-1956.

Title The battles that changed history.

Publication Info. Garden City, N.Y. : Hanover House, [1956]

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 Moore Stacks  D25 .P68    Available  ---
Edition [1st ed.].
Description 348 pages
Contents Arbela and the man who would be God -- Red King at Beneventum -- Fighting in the streets and the future of order -- Kadisiyah and the cost of conquest -- Las Navas de Tolosa and why the Americans were conquered -- Jeanne d'Arc and the non-conquest of England -- Vienna and the failure to complete the Crescent -- Leyden and the foundation of sea power -- Gustavus Adolphus and the end of the Middle Ages -- Interlude; the day of inadequate decisions -- Frederick the Great and the unacceptable decision -- Quebec, Quiberon, America -- Why the American Revolution succeeded -- Trafalgar, Austerlitz, and the fall and rise of empire -- Things decided at Vicksburg -- More than Midway.
Subject Battles.
Battles.