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Illustrated edition – recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.This book introduces readers to a whole range of military history with all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history, and through them we can understand how warfare and world history have evolved.Choosing just one hundred battles from recorded human history is a challenge. Not just because it is necessary to cover almost 6,000 years of history, but because men have fought each other almost continuously for millennia. Anyone who knows anything about the history of war may be disappointed at what has had to be left out. However, each of the 100 memorable battles described shows both how the nature of armed combat has changed over human history, and also how, despite changes in technology, organisation or ideas, many things have remained the same.It is an old adage that you can win a battle but lose a war. The battles featured here almost always resulted in victory for one side or another, but the victor did not necessarily win the war. Some battles are decisive in that broader historical sense, others are not. The further back in time, the more likely it is that an enemy could be finished off in one blow. The wars of the modern age, between major states, have involved repeated battles until one side was battered into submission. Some of the great generals of the recent past – Napoleon, Robert E Lee, Erich von Manstein – have been on the losing side but are remembered nonetheless for their generalship.Some on the winning side have all but disappeared from the history books or from public memory. Equally, in many battles, the issue is not victory or defeat, but what the battle can tell us about the history of warfare itself. New weapons, new tactics, new ways of organising armed forces can have a sudden impact on the outcome of a battle. But so too can leadership, or the effects of a clever deception, or raw courage. That is why the book has been divided up into clear themes which apply equally to the battles of the ancient world as they do to the battles of today.As Professor Richard Overy laments: “Battle is not a game to plug into a computer but a piece of living history, messy, bloody and real. That, at least, has not changed in 6,000 years.”

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William Collins

An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 77–85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB WilliamCollinsBooks.com

This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2014

Richard Overy asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Edited and designed by Tall Tree Ltd

Cover photograph © Arkady Shaikhet.

Courtesy of Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins

Source ISBN: 9780007452507

Ebook Edition © October 2014 ISBN: 9780007452521

Version: 2014-09-23

CONTENTS

COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT William Collins An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 77–85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB WilliamCollinsBooks.com This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2014 Copyright © Richard Overy 2014 Richard Overy asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Edited and designed by Tall Tree Ltd Cover photograph © Arkady Shaikhet. Courtesy of Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins Source ISBN: 9780007452507 Ebook Edition © October 2014 ISBN: 9780007452521 Version: 2014-09-23

MAPS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: THE TRUTH OF BATTLE

CHAPTER 1: LEADERSHIP

1BATTLE OF GAUGAMELA

2BATTLE OF CANNAE

3BATTLE OF ACTIUM

4BATTLE OF THE MILVIAN BRIDGE

5BATTLE OF HASTINGS

6BATTLE OF ZHONGDU

7BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN

8BATTLE OF MOHÁCS

9SIEGE OF VIENNA

10BATTLE OF VALMY

11BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR

12BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ

13BATTLE OF MAIPÚ

14BATTLE OF VOLTURNO

15BATTLE FOR WARSAW

16THIRD BATTLE OF KHARKOV

CHAPTER 2: AGAINST THE ODDS

17THERMOPYLAE AND SALAMIS

18BATTLE OF ZELA

19BATTLE OF EDINGTON

20BATTLE OF CLONTARF

21BATTLE OF LEGNANO

22BATTLE OF THE RIVER SALADO

23BATTLE OF AGINCOURT

24SIEGE OF BELGRADE

25BATTLE OF PLASSEY

26BATTLE OF LEUTHEN

27RORKE’S DRIFT

28BATTLE OF ADWA

29BATTLE OF OMDURMAN

30FALL OF SINGAPORE

31BATTLE OF SANTA CLARA

CHAPTER 3: INNOVATION

32BATTLE OF LEUCTRA

33BATTLE OF CARRHAE

34BATTLE OF AIN JALUT

35BATTLE OF CRÉCY

36BATTLE OF LEPANTO

37THE SPANISH ARMADA

38BATTLE OF BREITENFELD

39BATTLE OF NASEBY

40BATTLE OF POLTAVA

41BATTLE OF SOLFERINO–SAN MARTINO

42BATTLE OF KÖNIGGRÄTZ (SADOWA)

43BATTLE OF SHANGANI

44BATTLE OF TSUSHIMA

45THIRD BATTLE OF EDIRNE

46THIRD BATTLE OF CAMBRAI

47BATTLE OF FRANCE

48BATTLE OF BRITAIN

49PEARL HARBOR

50BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC

51HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

52OPERATION DESERT STORM

CHAPTER 4: DECEPTION

53THE FALL OF TROY

54BATTLES OF MOUNT VESUVIUS

55BATTLE OF RONCESVALLES

56BATTLE OF KLEIDION–STRUMITSA

57BATTLE OF MANZIKERT

58BATTLE OF LAKE PEIPUS

59FALL OF TENOCHTITLÁN

60BATTLE OF BLENHEIM

61BATTLE OF HOHENFRIEDBERG

62BATTLE OF THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM

63SIEGE OF YORKTOWN

64BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN

65BATTLE OF ALAM HALFA

66THE NORMANDY INVASION

67OPERATION BAGRATION

68THE SIX DAY WAR

69TET OFFENSIVE

CHAPTER 5: COURAGE IN THE FACE OF FIRE

70BATTLE OF MARATHON

71BATTLE OF THE CATALAUNIAN FIELDS (CHÂLONS)

72BATTLE OF POITIERS–TOURS

73BATTLE OF LECHFELD

74BATTLE OF ARSUF

75BATTLE OF BORODINO

76BATTLE OF LEIPZIG

77BATTLE OF NAVARINO BAY

78FIRST BATTLE OF MANASSAS (BULL RUN)

79BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

80BATTLE OF TACNA

81THE BATTLE OF VERDUN

82FIRST DAY OF THE SOMME

83GUADALCANAL

84STALINGRAD

85FOURTH BATTLE OF MONTE CASSINO

CHAPTER 6: IN THE NICK OF TIME

86BATTLE OF KADESH

87BATTLE OF ZAMA

88BATTLE OF ADRIANOPLE

89FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE

90BATTLE OF SEKIGAHARA

91BATTLE OF MARENGO

92BATTLE OF WATERLOO

93BATTLE OF TANNENBERG

94THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE MARNE

95DEFENCE OF TSARITSYN

96SINK THE BISMARCK

97BATTLE OF MIDWAY

98BATTLE OF KURSK

99BATTLE OF DIEN BIEN PHU

100BATTLE FOR THE FALKLANDS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER