The hinges of battle
Subtitle: how change and incompetence have changed the face of history
By: Erik Durschmied.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
Subjects: Battles; Military history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-425) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Prologue:; title: The Truth, and Nothing but the Truth 1; title: 1 Flagellum Dei - the Scourge of God; title: 7 September, AD 451 - Attila the Hun 5; title: 2 Through a Gate Wide Open; title: 29 May 1453 - The Fall of Constantinople 38; title: 3 A Confederacy of Dunces; title: 20 October 1805 - Napoleon,; title: or the Unequal Contest at Ulm 71; title: 4 The Fool Who Rode to His Death; title: 25 June 1876 - Custer's Last Stand 92; title: 5 A Washing of the Spears; title: 22 January 1879 - Death in Zululand 131; title: 6 And Raise Your Head with Pride!; title: 24 April 1916 - The Irish Easter Rising 178; title: 7 'Since This Morning We Are Shooting Back!'; title: 31 August 1939 - The Gleiwitz Caper 232; title: 8 All Warfare Is Based on Deception; title: 19 November 1942 - Stalin's Secret Army at Stalingrad 262; title: 9 A Mousetrap That Caught the Cat; title: 13 March 1954 - The Last Day of Dien Bien Phu 336; title: 10 The War Office Regrets to Inform You; title: 13 January 1842 - Afghanistan 383; title: Epilogue: Is This the End? 412.