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Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth century, Edward S. Creasy''s Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World has been read and re-read for close to 150 years. It is not only the authoritative account of each battle that makes Creasy''s work such a classic,it is his command of narrative, his interest in human struggle, his profound deductions as to effects of the battles, and his striving after truth. Furthermore, his selections seem as wise and well-considered today as when Fifteen Decisive Battles first appeared in 1851: Nobody since has made better ones, nor given us better accounts. Apart from the scholarship and literary skill of Creasy''s book, there is another reason it has endured: Creasy was essentially fair-minded. He had been a judge, and when he became England''s great military critic and historian, he maintained a thoroughly judicial attitude. He was not a British partisan, nor French, nor German,he was a cosmopolitan observer of great event

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      Publisher: Hachette Books
      Publication Date: 3/22/1994 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780306805592, 978-0306805592
      ISBN10: 0306805596
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      Book Synopsis
      Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth century, Edward S. Creasy''s Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World has been read and re-read for close to 150 years. It is not only the authoritative account of each battle that makes Creasy''s work such a classic,it is his command of narrative, his interest in human struggle, his profound deductions as to effects of the battles, and his striving after truth. Furthermore, his selections seem as wise and well-considered today as when Fifteen Decisive Battles first appeared in 1851: Nobody since has made better ones, nor given us better accounts. Apart from the scholarship and literary skill of Creasy''s book, there is another reason it has endured: Creasy was essentially fair-minded. He had been a judge, and when he became England''s great military critic and historian, he maintained a thoroughly judicial attitude. He was not a British partisan, nor French, nor German,he was a cosmopolitan observer of great event

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