Masters of the battlefield
Subtitle: great commanders from the classical age to the Napoleonic era
By: Paul K. Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 607
ISBN-13: 9780195342352
Subjects: Generals; Military art and science; Military biography; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 573-602) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: one man's gifts; title: Epaminondas (418?-362 bc); title: Alexander (356-323 BC); title: Han Xin (?-196 BC); title: Hannibal (247-182 BC); title: Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC); title: Gaius Julius Caesar (100-48 BC); title: Belisarius (505?-568); title: Chinggis khan/subedei (1162?-1227); title: Jan Zizka (1360?-1424); title: Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582); title: Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632); title: John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722); title: Frederick II (The Great) (1712-1786); title: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821); title: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852); title: Lessons learned.