History's Greatest Battles
Nigel Cawthorne
Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring where cultures and ideologies clash. While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds. Superior weaponry has sometimes brought victory, as at Plassey, while the extraordinary generalship of a Napoleon, a Wellington, or a Marlborough has won the day on other occasions.
From the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, when the vastly-outnumbered Athenian army turned back an invasion of the mighty Persian empire, up to the Vietnamese defeat of the French army at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the battles in this book demonstrate that fate is not always on the side of the big battalions.
Duration - 9h 56m.
Author - Nigel Cawthorne.
Narrator - Steven Crossley.
Published Date - Sunday, 07 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2012 Arcturus Holdings Limited ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring where cultures and ideologies clash. While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds. Superior weaponry has sometimes brought victory, as at Plassey, while the extraordinary generalship of a Napoleon, a Wellington, or a Marlborough has won the day on other occasions. From the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, when the vastly-outnumbered Athenian army turned back an invasion of the mighty Persian empire, up to the Vietnamese defeat of the French army at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the battles in this book demonstrate that fate is not always on the side of the big battalions. Duration - 9h 56m. Author - Nigel Cawthorne. Narrator - Steven Crossley. Published Date - Sunday, 07 January 2024. Copyright - © 2012 Arcturus Holdings Limited ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duración:00:00:06
Introduction
Duración:00:03:07
Marathon, 490 BCE
Duración:00:13:02
Granicus, 334 BCE
Duración:00:14:47
Cannae, 216 BCE
Duración:00:17:20
Alesia, 52 BCE
Duración:00:15:06
Teutoburger Wald, 9 CE
Duración:00:12:55
Jerusalem, 70 CE
Duración:00:21:39
Châlons-sur-Marne 451 CE
Duración:00:08:05
Tours, 732
Duración:00:07:02
Hastings, 1066
Duración:00:08:46
Crécy, 1346
Duración:00:09:57
Agincourt, 1415
Duración:00:15:26
Constantinople, 1453
Duración:00:07:06
Bosworth, 1485
Duración:00:10:44
Lepanto, 1571
Duración:00:09:49
Blenheim, 1704
Duración:00:19:20
Culloden, 1746
Duración:00:10:27
Plassey, 1757
Duración:00:08:56
Quebec, 1759
Duración:00:10:07
Yorktown, 1781
Duración:00:06:00
Trafalgar, 1805
Duración:00:08:10
Austerlitz, 1805
Duración:00:08:08
Moscow, 1812
Duración:00:12:56
Waterloo, 1815
Duración:00:16:12
Sebastopol, 1854-55
Duración:00:22:35
Gettysburg, 1863
Duración:00:17:48
Vicksburg, 1863
Duración:00:08:51
Kut-al-Amara, 1916
Duración:00:08:18
Baghdad, 1917
Duración:00:07:03
Cambrai, 1917
Duración:00:13:08
Dunkirk, 1940
Duración:00:12:52
Tobruk, 1941
Duración:00:28:16
Crete, 1941
Duración:00:16:04
Alamein, 1942
Duración:00:21:54
Stalingrad, 1942-43
Duración:00:38:54
Kursk, 1943
Duración:00:08:10
Kohima and Imphal, 1944
Duración:00:16:15
D-Day, 1944
Duración:00:52:05
Iwo Jima, 1945
Duración:00:10:00
Berlin, 1945
Duración:00:16:03
Dien Bien Phu, 1954
Duración:00:22:20
Closing Credits
Duración:00:00:13