How to Win on the Battlefield: 25 Key Tactics to Outwit, Outflank and Outfight the Enemy

Johnson, Rob

ISBN 10: 0500251614 / ISBN 13: 9780500251614

Verlag: Thames & Hudson, 2010

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This groundbreaking book examines battle tactics that have achieved victory through the ages. Drawing on examples of battles on land, at sea, and in the air, the authors reveal the enduring value of each tactic in clear and compelling descriptions and analysis.How can you draw your enemy off-balance? When is the best moment to deliver a counterattack? What is the effect of shock action or defense in depth? This book shows how certain tactical concepts have stood the test of time. It illustrates how General Robert E. Lee, although heavily outnumbered, achieved a remarkable victory through an audacious flanking maneuver at Chancellorsville in 1863, and how the same bold move had been used effectively in Europe more than 600 years before by the king of France at Bouvines. It examines how Allied armies seized and retained the initiative through the airborne landings in Normandy in 1944, and how Soviet General Zhukov pierced enemy lines using Blitzkrieg tactics in Mongolia in 1939. The book features evocative photographs, illustrations, and paintings, and 28 specially commissioned battle plans.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Rob Johnson is Deputy Director of the Changing Character of War Programme, Oxford University and Lecturer in the History of War.

Michael Whitby is is pro-vice-chancellor and head of the College of Arts and Law at the University of Birmingham.

John France is Professor Emeritus, University of Swansea and Director of the Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict.

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Titel: How to Win on the Battlefield: 25 Key ...
Verlag: Thames & Hudson
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good