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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Praise for Professor Richard Overy

Maps

Preface

Introduction: The Truth of Battle

Chapter 1: Leadership

1 Battle of Gaugamela

2 Battle of Cannae

3 Battle of Actium

4 Battle of the Milvian Bridge

5 Battle of Hastings

6 Battle of Zhongdu

7 Battle of Bannockburn

8 Battle of Mohács

9 Siege of Vienna

10 Battle of Valmy

11 Battle of Trafalgar

12 Battle of Austerlitz

13 Battle of Maipú

14 Battle of Volturno

15 Battle for Warsaw

16 Third Battle of Kharkov

Chapter 2: Against the Odds

17 Thermopylae and Salamis

18 Battle of Zela

19 Battle of Edington

20 Battle of Clontarf

21 Battle of Legnano

22 Battle of the River Salado

23 Battle of Agincourt

24 Siege of Belgrade

25 Battle of Plassey

26 Battle of Leuthen

27 Rorke’s Drift

28 Battle of Adwa

29 Battle of Omdurman

30 Fall of Singapore

31 Battle of Santa Clara

Chapter 3: Innovation

32 Battle of Leuctra

33 Battle of Carrhae

34 Battle of Ain Jalut

35 Battle of Crécy

36 Battle of Lepanto

37 The Spanish Armada

38 Battle of Breitenfeld

39 Battle of Naseby

40 Battle of Poltava

41 Battle of Solferino–San Martino

42 Battle of Königgrätz (Sadowa)

43 Battle of Shangani

44 Battle of Tsushima

45 Siege of Edirne

46 Battle of Cambrai

47 Battle of France

48 Battle of Britain

49 Pearl Harbor

50 Battle of the Atlantic

51 Hiroshima and Nagasaki

52 Operation Desert Storm

Chapter 4: Deception

53 The Fall of Troy

54 Battles of Mount Vesuvius

55 Battle of Roncesvalles

56 Battle of Kleidion–Strumitsa

57 Battle of Manzikert

58 Battle of Lake Peipus

59 Fall of Tenochtitlán

60 Battle of Blenheim

61 Battle of Hohenfriedberg

62 Battle of the Plains of Abraham

63 Siege of Yorktown

64 Battle of the Little Big Horn

65 Battle of Alam Halfa

66 The Normandy Invasion

67 Operation Bagration

68 The Six Day War

69 Tet Offensive

Chapter 5: Courage in the Face of Fire

70 Battle of Marathon

71 Battle of the Catalaunian Fields (Châlons)

72 Battle of Poitiers–Tours

73 Battle of Lechfeld

74 Battle of Arsuf

75 Battle of Borodino

76 Battle of Leipzig

77 Battle of Navarino Bay

78 First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)

79 Battle of Gettysburg

80 Battle of Tacna

81 Battle of Verdun

82 First Day of the Somme

83 Guadalcanal

84 Stalingrad

85 Fourth Battle of Monte Cassino

Chapter 6: In the Nick of Time

86 Battle of Kadesh

87 Battle of Zama

88 Battle of Adrianople

89 Fall of Constantinople

90 Battle of Sekigahara

91 Battle of Marengo

92 Battle of Waterloo

93 Battle of Tannenberg

94 First Battle of the Marne

95 Defence of Tsaritsyn

96 Sink the Bismarck

97 Battle of Midway

98 Battle of Kursk

99 Battle of Dien Bien Phu

100 Battle for the Falklands

Picture Section

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

About the Publisher