Lost Battles


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Lost Battles


Lost Battles
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Author : Philip A. G. Sabin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Release Date : 2007

Lost Battles written by Philip A. G. Sabin and has been published by Bloomsbury Continuum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.


Philip Sabin's book offers a unique and dynamic insight into ancient warfare, combining academic rigour with the accessibility of simulation gaming.



Lost Battles


Lost Battles
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Author : Philip Sabin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-02-05

Lost Battles written by Philip Sabin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-05 with History categories.


From the author's introduction: Ancient battles seize the modern imagination. Far from being forgotten, they have become a significant aspect of popular culture, prompting a continuing stream of books, feature films, television programs and board and computer games... there is a certain escapist satisfaction in looking back to an era when conflicts between entire states turned on clear-cut pitched battles between formed armies, lasting just a few hours and spanning just a few miles of ground. These battles were still unspeakably traumatic and grisly affairs for those involved - at Cannae, Hannibal's men butchered around two and a half times as many Romans (out of a much smaller overall population) as there were British soldiers killed on the notorious first day of the Somme. However, as with the great clashes of the Napoleonic era, time has dulled our preoccupation with such awful human consequences, and we tend to focus instead on the inspired generalship of commanders like Alexander and Caesar and on the intriguing tactical interactions of units such as massed pikemen and war elephants within the very different military context of pre-gunpowder warfare. Lost Battles takes a new and innovative approach to the battles of antiquity. Using his experience with conflict simulation, Philip Sabin draws together ancient evidence and modern scholarship to construct a generic, grand tactical model of the battles as a whole. This model unites a mathematical framework, to capture the movement and combat of the opposing armies, with human decisions to shape the tactics of the antagonists. Sabin then develops detailed scenarios for 36 individual battles such as Marathon and Cannae, and uses the comparative structure offered by the generic model to help cast light on which particular interpretations of the ancient sources on issues such as army size fit in best with the general patterns observed elsewhere. Readers can use the model to experiment for themselves by re-fighting engagements of their choice, tweaking the scenarios to accord with their own judgment of the evidence, trying out different tactics from those used historically, and seeing how the battle then plays out. Lost Battles thus offers a unique dynamic insight into ancient warfare, combining academic rigor with the interest and accessibility of simulation gaming. This book includes access to a downloadable computer simulation where the reader can view the author's simulations as well create their own.



Lost Battles


Lost Battles
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Author : Philip A. G.. Sabin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Lost Battles written by Philip A. G.. Sabin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Battles categories.




The Lost Battles


The Lost Battles
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Author : Jonathan Jones
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-10-23

The Lost Battles written by Jonathan Jones and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with History categories.


From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine Republic to paint a narrative fresco depicting a famous military victory on a wall of the newly built Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio, and his implacable young rival, the thirty-year-old Michelangelo. We see Leonardo, having just completed The Last Supper, and being celebrated by all of Florence for his miraculous portrait of the wife of a textile manufacturer. That painting—the Mona Lisa—being called the most lifelike anyone had ever seen yet, more divine than human, was captivating the entire Florentine Republic. And Michelangelo, completing a commissioned statue of David, the first colossus of the Renaissance, the archetype hero for the Republic epitomizing the triumph of the weak over the strong, helping to reshape the public identity of the city of Florence and conquer its heart. In The Lost Battles, published in England to great acclaim (“Superb”—The Observer; “Beguilingly written”—The Guardian), Jonathan Jones brilliantly sets the scene of the time—the politics; the world of art and artisans; and the shifting, agitated cultural landscape. We see Florence, a city freed from the oppressive reach of the Medicis, lurching from one crisis to another, trying to protect its liberty in an Italy descending into chaos, with the new head of the Republic in search of a metaphor that will make clear the glory that is Florence, and seeing in the commissioned paintings the expression of his vision. Jones reconstructs the paintings that Leonardo and Michelangelo undertook—Leonardo’s Battle of Anghiari, a nightmare seen in the eyes of the warrior (it became the first modern depiction of the disenchantment of war) and Michelangelo’s Battle of Cascina, a call to arms and the first great transfiguration of the erotic into art. Jones writes about the competition; how it unfolded and became the defining moment in the transformation of “craftsman” to “artist”; why the Florentine government began to fall out of love with one artist in favor of the other; and how—and why—in a competition that had no formal prize to clearly resolve the outcome, the battle became one for the hearts and minds of the Florentine Republic, with Michelangelo setting out to prove that his work, not Leonardo’s, embodied the future of art. Finally, we see how the result of the competition went on to shape a generation of narrative paintings, beginning with those of Raphael. A riveting exploration into one of history’s most resonant exchanges of ideas, a rich, fascinating book that gives us a whole new understanding of an age and those at its center.



Germany S Defeat In The First World War


Germany S Defeat In The First World War
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Author : Mark D. Karau
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-05-12

Germany S Defeat In The First World War written by Mark D. Karau and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-12 with History categories.


A noted World War I scholar examines the critical decisions and events that led to Germany's defeat, arguing that the German loss was caused by collapse at home as well as on the front. Much has been written about the causes for the outbreak of World War I and the ways in which the war was fought, but few historians have tackled the reasons why the Germans, who appeared on the surface to be winning for most of the war, ultimately lost. This book, in contrast, presents an in-depth examination of the complex interplay of factors—social, cultural, military, economic, and diplomatic—that led to Germany's defeat. The highly readable work begins with an examination of the strengths and weaknesses of the two coalitions and points out how the balance of forces was clearly on the side of the Entente in a long and drawn-out war. The work then probes the German plan to win the war quickly and the resulting campaigns of August and September 1914 that culminated in the devastating defeat in the First Battle of the Marne. Subsequent chapters discuss the critical factors and decisions that led to Germany's loss, including the British naval blockade, the role of economic factors in maintaining a consensus for war, and the social impact of material deprivation.



Battles Lost And Won


Battles Lost And Won
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Author : Hanson Weightman Baldwin
language : en
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
Release Date : 1995

Battles Lost And Won written by Hanson Weightman Baldwin and has been published by Smithmark Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.


An evaluation of eleven crucial campaigns and battles of World War II.



Wars Lost Battles Won


Wars Lost Battles Won
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Author : Ádám Reviczky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

Wars Lost Battles Won written by Ádám Reviczky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


A biography of General Imre Reviczky, a Hungarian officer of Jewish descent and, as such, a victim of Hungarian and German anti-Semitism and corollary policies during World War II.



Battles Lost And Won


Battles Lost And Won
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Author : Beryl Matthews
language : en
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Release Date : 2015-11-19

Battles Lost And Won written by Beryl Matthews and has been published by Allison & Busby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Fiction categories.


1919, London's East End. Robert Hunter is eagerly awaiting the return of his father from the war. Next door, Ruth Cooper's family are also preparing to welcome her dad, whose ship was lost at Jutland. After five years of separation and anxiety - and, for Bob, the worry of caring for his frail mother - emotions are running high for both young people. But Alf Hunter, who saw action in the trenches, returns a changed man, and when he takes to drink, Bob must put his own happiness on hold to support his family.



The Allure Of Battle


The Allure Of Battle
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Author : Cathal J. Nolan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017

The Allure Of Battle written by Cathal J. Nolan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.


"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." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Nor has the "genius" of the so-called Great Captains--from Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great and Napoleon--played a major role. Wars are decided in other ways. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking," the hope that victory might be swift and wars brief. As he proves persuasively, however, such has almost never been the case. Even the major engagements have mainly contributed to victory or defeat by accelerating the erosion of the other side's defences. Massive conflicts, the so-called "people's wars," beginning with Napoleon and continuing until 1945, have consisted of and been determined by prolonged stalemate and attrition, industrial wars in which the determining factor has been not military but mataeriel. Nolan's masterful book places battles squarely and mercilessly within the context of the wider conflict in which they took place. In the process it help corrects a distorted view of battle's role in war, replacing popular images of the "battles of annihilation" with somber appreciation of the commitments and human sacrifices made throughout centuries of war particularly among the Great Powers. Accessible, provocative, exhaustive, and illuminating, The Allure of Battle will spark fresh debate about the history and conduct of warfare."--Provided by publisher.



Lost Battles


Lost Battles
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Author : Matt Edsand
language : en
Publisher: Edsand
Release Date : 2023-09-22

Lost Battles written by Matt Edsand and has been published by Edsand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-22 with Fiction categories.


Captain Norman, Major Thomas and the team mount a rescue by heading into Ebelon, the Vartok home world. But the success of their mission depends on a single unknown individual. Meanwhile, the first zuko appears on Alpha Six, one of Earth's cities. Giving birth to Vartok soldiers, what is the enemy after? And will they succeed in their mission? The Vartok are also moving forward in their invasion. Emissary Wheeler is sent out on a new mission. To destroy a mining colony. But things are not as they appear. Can the UFP prevent another lost battle or will the Vartok continue to penetrate UFP space? If you like fast-paced action and plot twists then you will love Lost Battles, Book 4 of Deception War.