208 p. : 24 cm

From ancient Greece to Desert Storm, Military Commanders presents a chronological history of great battles and the men who won them. Beginning with Leonidas of Sparta, who died at Thermopylae and ending with Colin Powell, this book includes such world famous leaders as Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Grant and Lee, Patton and Rommel. In addition, it includes the military theorist Sun Tzu, who wrote "The Art of War," as well as lesser known but important figures, such as Red Cloud, Shaka Zulu, and General Giap. Military Commanders, containing pertinent quotations, anecdotes, and detailed facts is a highly-readable combination of history and biography

Includes index

The ancients. Leonidas of Sparta ; Sun Tzu ; Alexander the Great ; Hannibal ; Scipio Africanus ; Gaius Marius ; Pompey ; Julius Caesar ; Marcus Agrippa ; Augustus Octavian ; Arminius ; Claudius ; Trajan ; Constantine I ; Alaric I ; Flavius Aetius ; Attila the Hun ; Belisarius -- The Anglo-Saxons & Vikings. Alfred the Great ; Athelstan ; Cnut I ; Harold II -- The Middle Ages. Charles Martel ; Charlemagne ; El Cid ; Saladin ; Richard I (The Lionheart) ; Genghis Khan ; Alexander III of Scotland ; Edward I ; Edward III ; Edward the Black Prince ; Tamerlane ; Henry V -- Sweden's warrior kings. Gustavus II of Sweden ; Charles XII of Sweden -- 17th century England & Scotland. Oliver Cromwell ; Sir Thomas Fairfax ; Prince Rupert ; William of Orange ; John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough ; John Campbell, Duke of Argyll ; Charles Stuart ; William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland -- The Napoleonic era. Lord Horatio Nelson ; Sir John Moore ; Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington ; Napoleon Bonaparte ; Michel Ney -- The British Empire. Lord Howard of Effingham ; Sir Francis Drake ; James Wolfe ; Shaka Zulu ; Sir Colin Campbell ; Charles Gordon -- The American War of Independence & Civil War. George Washington ; Andrew Jackson ; Robert E. Lee ; William T. Sherman ; Ulysses S. Grant ; Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson -- Native America. Cochise ; Red Cloud ; Crazy Horse -- Prussia. Frederick the Great ; Graf Helmuth von Moltke ; Prince Otto von Bismarck ; Alfred von Tirpitz -- The First World War. Paul von Hindenburg ; John Joseph Pershing ; Earl Douglas Haig ; Viscount Edmund Allenby ; Sir Henry Rawlinson ; Erich Ludendorff ; Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck ; Kemal Ataturk -- The Second World War. Carl Gustav Mannerheim ; Gerd von Rundstedt ; Douglas MacArthur ; Archibald Wavell ; Viscount Alanbrooke ; Yamamoto Isoroku ; George S. Patton ; Erich von Manstein ; Bernard Law Montgomery ; Heinz Guderian ; Dwight D. Eisenhower ; Erwin Rommel ; Harold Alexander ; William Slim ; Omar Bradley ; Georgy Zhukov ; Ivan Konev ; Vasily Chuikov ; Orde Wingate ; Sir David Stirling -- The modern age. Vo Nguyen Giap ; Moshe Dayan ; Norman Schwarzkopf ; Colin Powell

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