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Great Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts.

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. Of course, a disastrous outcome for one side meant victory for another, so as well as exploring the reasons the conflict ended in disaster, Great Military Disasters also reveals the key to victory. Eyewitness quotations add another dimension to this intriguing study of human incompetence of the gravest kind.

Great Military Disasters: From Bannockburn to Stalingrad

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Great Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts. From the French army's failure to understand... Read more

    Publisher: Quercus Publishing
    Publication Date: 02/04/2015
    ISBN13: 9781848668997, 978-1848668997
    ISBN10: 1848668996

    Number of Pages: 304

    Non Fiction , History , Military History

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    Great Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts.

    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. Of course, a disastrous outcome for one side meant victory for another, so as well as exploring the reasons the conflict ended in disaster, Great Military Disasters also reveals the key to victory. Eyewitness quotations add another dimension to this intriguing study of human incompetence of the gravest kind.

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