Outnumbered
Incredible Stories of History's Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets
Outnumbered but not Outmatched. How did Hannibal's 55,000 Carthaginians turn the tables on an 80,000-strong force of the ancient world's most efficient military machine, the Roman army? What allowed 6,000 Englishmen to overcome 30,000 French at Agincourt in 1415? Which errors in judgment doomed a Russian army twice as large as its opposing German force at the Battle of Tannenberg during World War I?Author Cormac O'Brien's powerful and vivid recreations of history's most surprising military victories illuminate the cunning strategies, secret weapons, fateful decisions, and changes of fortune that turned the tide of battle in the most extraordi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61673-843-3
- EAN: 9781616738433
- Produktnummer: 35542107
- Verlag: Fair Winds Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 20'421 KB
- Abbildungen: 75
Über den Autor
Cormac O'Brien is the author of The Forgotten History of America and Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents, among other books. He has been a featured speaker at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and a regular guest on National Public Radio. He lives in New Jersey.
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