The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost AUTH-10500377 make this book indispensable for

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The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost AUTH-10500377 make this book indispensable forHistory 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. Marathon, Cannae, Tours, Agincourt, Austerlitz, Sedan, Stalingrad all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide turning. But were they? As Cathal J. Nolan demonstrates in this magisterial and sweeping work, victory in major wars usually has been determined