Great military disasters
By: general editor, Michael E. Haskew
Publisher: Parragon
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781407555645
Subjects: Battles; Military history
Description: Provides detailed coverage and tactical maps of various historic battles from Cannae to Mogadishu.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Cannae, 216 B.C.E.; title: Teutoburg Forest, 9 C.E.; title: Manzikert, 1071; title: Hattin, 1187; title: Agincourt, 1415; title: Lepanto, 1571; title: Spanish Armada, 1588; title: Karansebes, 1788; title: Retreat from Moscow, 1812; title: San Jacinto, 1836; title: Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854; title: Gettysburg, 1863; title: Sedan, 1870; title: Little Big Horn, 1876; title: Adowa, 1896; title: Tsushima, 1905; title: Gallipoli, 1915; title: Caporetto, 1917; title: Pearl Harbor, 1941; title: Midway, 1942; title: Stalingrad, 1943; title: Dien Bien Phu, 1954; title: Longewala, 1971; title: Mogadishu, 1993.