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The Hinges of Battle: How Chance and Incompetence Have Changed the Face of History
by Erik Durschmied
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- ISBN 10
- 0340819782
- ISBN 13
- 9780340819784
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New. 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.
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- The Saint Bookstore (GB)
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- Title
- The Hinges of Battle: How Chance and Incompetence Have Changed the Face of History
- Author
- Erik Durschmied
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 5
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0340819782
- ISBN 13
- 9780340819784
- Publisher
- Coronet Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- November 7, 2002
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