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Cathal Nolan: The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost

History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive."
ISBN: 9780190931513
Author: Cathal Nolan
Page: 728
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2019
Format: Book
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Language: English

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Marathon, Cannae, Tours, Agincourt, Austerlitz, Sedan, Stalingrad-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But were they? As Cathal J. Nolan demonstrates in this magisterial and sweeping work, victory in major wars usually has been determined in other ways. Even the most legendarily lopsided of battles did not necessarily decide their outcomes.

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