The shape of battle : six campaigns from Hastings to Helmand / Allan Mallinson.
"One of our most distinguished military historians tells the story of six defining feats of arms - Hastings, Towton, Waterloo, D-Day, Imjin River and Operation Panther's Claw in Afghanistan - and the wars and campaigns in which they occured, and the factors that determined their precise fo...
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London :
Bantam Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: movement of bodies
- Hastings: the battle for England 14 October 1066
- Towton: the battle for the crown 29 March 1461
- Waterloo: the battle for Europe 18 June 1815
- Sword Beach: the battle for the Bridgehead 6 June 1944
- Imjin River: the battle for honor 22-25 April 1951
- Helmand: Operation Panther's Claw: the battle for the population 19 June-27 July 2009
- Conclusion.