The Decisive Battles Of The Western World: 480 Bc — 1757
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few works in the canon of military history command the intellectual authority and sweeping scope of The Decisive Battles of the Western World: 480 BC — 1757, a monumental study that chronicles the pivotal engagements that irrevocably shaped the course of Western civilisation. From the thunderous clash at Salamis, where Greek triremes shattered Persian imperial ambition, to the grand strategic manoeuvres of the mid-eighteenth century, J.F.C. Fuller presents a masterful panorama of warfare across two millennia, arguing with forensic precision that specific battles — rather than slow societal drift — serve as the true hinge-points of history. Fuller, one of the foremost military theorists of the twentieth century, brings to bear a rare combination of battlefield experience and scholarly rigour, dissecting each engagement not merely as a tactical event but as a manifestation of the political, economic, and social forces of its age. His prose is authoritative yet compellingly readable, stripping away romantic myth to reveal the cold strategic logic beneath each campaign. Edited by John Terraine for this edition, the work retains its reputation as an indispensable reference for students of history and military affairs alike — a text that leaves the reader questioning just how differently the world might have looked had a single afternoon on any one of these fields turned the other way.
Author: J.F.C. Fuller
Format: Paperback
Genre: Military history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few works in the canon of military history command the intellectual authority and sweeping scope of The Decisive Battles of the Western World: 480 BC — 1757, a monumental study that chronicles the pivotal engagements that irrevocably shaped the course of Western civilisation. From the thunderous clash at Salamis, where Greek triremes shattered Persian imperial ambition, to the grand strategic manoeuvres of the mid-eighteenth century, J.F.C. Fuller presents a masterful panorama of warfare across two millennia, arguing with forensic precision that specific battles — rather than slow societal drift — serve as the true hinge-points of history. Fuller, one of the foremost military theorists of the twentieth century, brings to bear a rare combination of battlefield experience and scholarly rigour, dissecting each engagement not merely as a tactical event but as a manifestation of the political, economic, and social forces of its age. His prose is authoritative yet compellingly readable, stripping away romantic myth to reveal the cold strategic logic beneath each campaign. Edited by John Terraine for this edition, the work retains its reputation as an indispensable reference for students of history and military affairs alike — a text that leaves the reader questioning just how differently the world might have looked had a single afternoon on any one of these fields turned the other way.