Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo Creasy Sir Edward S.Paperback
Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo Creasy Sir Edward S.Paperback Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth century, Edward S. It is not only…
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Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo Creasy Sir Edward S.Paperback
Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth century, Edward S. It is not only the authoritative account of each battle that makes Creasy's work such a classic-it is his command of narrative, his interest in human struggle, his profound deductions as to effects of the battles, and his striving after truth. Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World has been read and re-read for close to 150 years.
Apart from the scholarship and literary skill of Creasy's book, there is another reason it has endured: Creasy was essentially fair-minded. Furthermore, his selections seem as wise and well-considered today as when Fifteen Decisive Battles first appeared in 1851: Nobody since has made better ones, nor given us better accounts. He had been a judge, and when he became England's great military critic and historian, he maintained a thoroughly judicial attitude. He was