Военная история / Outnumbered: Incredible Stories of History's Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets

Издательство: Fair Winds Press
Автор: Cormac O'Brien
Название: Outnumbered: Incredible Stories of History's Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets
Язык: английский
Год издания: 2010
Количество страниц: 272
ISBN: 978-1-59233-405-6
Формат: pdf
Размер: 130 мб

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 extraordinary and unanticipated ways: the risky Greek ruse that trapped the Persian Fleet at Salamis in 480 BCE; the snowstorm that helped a Swedish force destroy a Russian army four times its size at the Battle of Narva in 1700; the newly introduced firearm that enabled 150 British soldiers to hold off an attacking horde of 4,000 Zulus at Rorke’s Drift, Africa, in 1879.