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The Hinges of Battle: How Chance and Incompetence Have Changed the Face of History

The Hinges of Battle: How Chance and Incompetence Have Changed the Face of History

Name: The Hinges of Battle: How Chance and Incompetence Have Changed the Face of History
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Erik Durschmied
ISBN: 9780340819784

Erik Durschmied

07/11/2002
Hodder Paperbacks

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Couverture de The Hinges of Battle: How Chance and Incompetence Have Changed the Face of History par Erik Durschmied

Résumé

There is no shortage of stories when it comes to battles. Some were decided by genius, but many more by a quirk of fate, when that thin balance which separates success from disaster lay in a minor decision or a trivial incident that tipped the scales. The thrust of a spear, the blink of an eye, a single phrase or a misinterpreted command is all it takes. A moment of courage or cowardice, energy or weariness, resolution or indecision. Battles have shaped the course of history and decided the fate of mankind. From a brutal Attila the Hun who went down to defeat on the Catalaunian Fields, to an overbearing French artillery colonel at Dien Bien Phu; from the stout walls of Constantinople to a skimpy mealie-bag wall at Rorke's Drift; from the sun of Austerlitz to the snows of Stalingrad, it was always an incident that decided the outcome of battle.