The 100 worst military disasters in history / John T. Kuehn with David W. Holden.

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"The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History is a fascinating collection that educators, students, and historians will all find useful in helping them understand the causes and consequences of the most infamous military failures in history"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kuehn, John T. (Author)
Holden, David W. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2020]
Subjects:
Battles.
Military history.
Physical Description:xi, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Variant Title:
One hundred worst military disasters in history
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Part I. Ancient Military Disasters -- 1. Megiddo -- 2. Marathon -- 3. Salamis -- 4. Syracuse Expedition -- 5. Gaugamela -- 6. Chang-Ping -- 7. Cannae -- 8. Zama -- 9. Pharsalus -- 10. Teutoburg Forest -- 11. Adrianople -- 12. Catalaunian Plains -- 13. Yarmouk -- 14. Baekgang -- Part II. Medieval Military Disasters -- 15. Tours -- 16. Hastings -- 17. Hattin -- 18. Kamikaze: The Second Mongol Invasion of Japan -- 19. Lake Boyang -- 20. Grünwald -- 21. Agincourt -- 22. Bosworth Field -- Part III. Military Disasters from the Early Modern Period -- 23. The Conquest of the Aztecs -- 24. Lepanto -- 25. The Spanish Armada -- 26. Pyongyang -- 27. Sekigahara -- 28. The Sack of Magdeburg -- 29. Breitenfeld -- 30. Nördlingen -- 31. Naseby -- 32. Rocroi -- 33. Ramillies -- 34. Poltava -- 35. Rossbach -- 36. Quebec -- 37. Kunersdorf -- 38. Quiberon Bay -- 39. The Siege of Pondicherry -- 40. Yorktown Campaign -- 41. Rivoli -- 42. The Nile -- 43. Second Battle of Zürich -- Part IV. Nineteenth-Century Military Disasters -- 44. Trafalgar -- 45. Jena-Auerstedt -- 46. Tippecanoe -- 47. Leipzig -- 48. The Alamo -- 49. San Jacinto -- 50. Siege of Nanjing -- 51. The Capture of New Orleans -- 52. The Vicksburg Campaign -- 53. Koeniggratz -- 54. Sedan -- 55. Battle of the Little Bighorn -- 56. Isandlwana -- 57. The Yalu -- 58. Manila Bay -- Part VI. Recent Military Disasters -- 59. Tsushima Strait -- 60. Tannenberg -- 61. The Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive -- 62. Verdun -- 63. Battle of the Somme -- 64. German U-Boat Offensive in World War I -- 65. Caporetto -- 66. Shanghai -- 67. Nomonhan -- 68. France 1940 -- 69. The Battle of Britain -- 70. Crete -- 71. Pearl Harbor -- 72. Wake Island -- 73. Singapore -- 74. Bataan -- 75. Midway -- 76. The Destruction of PQ-17 -- 77. The Dieppe Raid -- 78. El Alamein -- 79. Operation Torch -- 80. Guadalcanal -- 81. Kursk (Operation Citadel) -- 82. Ploesti Raid (Operation Tidal Wave) -- 83. The Second Schweinfurt Raid -- 84. Normandy Landings -- 85. The Philippine Sea -- 86. Imphal and Kohima -- 87. Operation Bagration -- 88. The Falaise Pocket -- 89. Battle of Arnhem -- 90. Operation Bodenplatte -- 91. Battle of Osan -- 92. Chinese Intervention -- 93. Battle of Dien Bien Phu -- 94. Ap Bac -- 95. The Six-Day War (1967 Arab-Israeli War) -- 96. The Tet Offensive -- 97. Lam Son 719 -- 98. 1973 Arab-Israeli War-Sinai (Yom Kippur War) -- 99. Iran-Iraq War: The First Gulf War -- 100. Iraqi Freedom. 
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