Arrogant Armies: Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them
Spanning more than two hundred years of martial adventurism, aggression, and outright blundering, Arrogant Armies chronicles the profoundly misguided and utterly calamitous military expeditions of the great empire builders and overconfident expeditionary forces. From colonial America to South Africa, from Mesopotamia to Khartoum, an extraordinary number of presumably superior armies grievously underestimated native forces. Using contemporary newspaper accounts, military memoirs, diaries of soldiers who fought in the battles, and other firsthand letters and papers, noted journalist James Perry brings a sense of urgency and immediacy to these h…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-471-11976-0
- EAN: 9780471119760
- Produktnummer: 8441395
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 322 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.5 cm x D2.8 cm 640 g
- Gewicht: 640
Über den Autor
JAMES M. PERRY is Senior Political Writer for the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of three books about American politics: Barry Goldwater: A New Look at a Presidential Candidate; The New Politics: The Expanding Technology of Political Manipulation; and Us & Them: How the Press Covered the 1972 Election. Mr. Perry lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
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