Turn around and run like hell
Subtitle: amazing stories of unconventional military strategies that worked
By: Joseph Cummins
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780760786529
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Military history; Popular works
Description: Ranging from the siege of ancient Babylon and Caesar's campaigns in Gaul to the American Civil War and the great global conflicts of the twentieth century, Turn Around and Run Like Hell identifies key moments in history when the ingenuity, vision, and daring of brilliant leaders turned in the tide of battle. -Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Marshalling forces : brilliant deployments by master strategists. Surround and kill : Hannibal's double envelopment at Cannae, 216 BC ; "God belonging" : Mongol suicide squads at the Battle of Liegnitz, 1241 ; Timur the Lame and the roaring camels of fire : the Battle of Delhi, 1398 ; Turning weakness into strength : the American victory at Cowpens, 1781 ; Horns of the Zulus : the Battle of Isandhlwana, 1879 ; Ghostly retreat : the Japanese withdrawal from Kiska, 1943; title: Pt. 2. Who dares wins : courage, boldness, and the element of surprise. The snatch : Francisco Pizarro kidnaps Inca King Atahuallpa, 1532 ; Les sauvages' secret weapon : Samuel de Champlain defeats the Iroquois, 1609 ; Attack in the eye of the storm : the Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759 ; Kitchener's gamble : the Battle of Omdurman, 1898 ; Admiral Togo's u-turn : the Battle of Tsushima, 1905 ; King Albert risks all : the flooding of Flanders, 1914; title: Pt. 3. If at first you don't succeed : persistence, resistance, and the art of siegecraft. Cyrus stops the waters : Persia overwhelms Babylon, 539 BC ; The road across the ocean : Alexander the Great's extraordinary conquest of Tyre, 332 BC ; Putting up walls : Caesar triumphs at Alesia, 52 BC ; Finding a weak spot : taking Chateau Gaillard, 1203-04 ; Death in the air : the Siege of Caffa, 1347 ; The terrible power of pa : the Battle of Ohaeawai, 1845 ; "That horrid pit" : the Battle of the Crater, 1864; title: Pt. 4. Smoke and mirrors : intelligence, deception, and subterfuge. Whispers and lies : Themistocles and the Battle of Salamis, 480 BC ; The perfect trap : the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, AD 9 ; The prince of deception : John Magruder and the Peninsula Campaign, 1862 ; Getting high on subterfuge : Richard Meinertzhagen and the Third Battle of Gaza, 1917 ; "This most successful threat" : Operation Fortitude, 1944 ; The tunnel beneath Berlin : Operation Stopwatch/Gold, 1954-56.