Military Misfortunes
Subtitle: The Anatomy of Failure in War
Publisher: Free Press
Published: December 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780743280822
Subjects: Battles & campaigns; Theory of warfare & military science; Military Operations; History; History - Military / War; Military; World - General; Military art and science; Military - Strategy; History / Military / General; Military - General; 20th century; Military history, Modern
First sentence: WE SHALL BEGIN OUR EXPLORATION of military misfortune by looking at the five explanations most commonly offered by historians trying to account for defeat and disaster on the field of battle.