Great Military Disasters

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From Bannockburn to Stalingrad: the dramatic stories behind the world’s most calamitous conflicts. Thrilling accounts of what went wrong, how and why – and tellingly, what went right for the victors. From the French army's failure to understand the impact of new technology at Crécy to Hitler's blatant overconfidence at Stalingrad, military historian Julian Spilsbury provides thrilling accounts of each disaster, covering exactly what went wrong, how and why. Eyewitness quotations add another dimension to this intriguing study of human incompetence of the gravest kind.

Paperback, 278 pages.
8" x 5".

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