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 - 20h 23m.
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 - 20h 23m. Author - Nigel Cawthorne. Narrator - Steven Crossley. Published Date - Sunday, 07 January 2024. Copyright - © 2012 Arcturus Holdings Limited ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:06:29
Introduction
Duration:03:07:12
Marathon, 490 BCE
Duration:13:02:28
Granicus, 334 BCE
Duration:14:47:08
Cannae, 216 BCE
Duration:17:20:18
Alesia, 52 BCE
Duration:15:06:55
Teutoburger Wald, 9 CE
Duration:12:55:06
Jerusalem, 70 CE
Duration:21:39:01
Châlons-sur-Marne 451 CE
Duration:08:05:55
Tours, 732
Duration:07:02:28
Hastings, 1066
Duration:08:46:42
Crécy, 1346
Duration:09:57:05
Agincourt, 1415
Duration:15:26:47
Constantinople, 1453
Duration:07:06:18
Bosworth, 1485
Duration:10:44:58
Lepanto, 1571
Duration:09:49:01
Blenheim, 1704
Duration:19:20:14
Culloden, 1746
Duration:10:27:43
Plassey, 1757
Duration:08:56:44
Quebec, 1759
Duration:10:07:32
Yorktown, 1781
Duration:06:00:28
Trafalgar, 1805
Duration:08:10:30
Austerlitz, 1805
Duration:08:08:53
Moscow, 1812
Duration:12:56:35
Waterloo, 1815
Duration:16:12:01
Sebastopol, 1854-55
Duration:22:35:51
Gettysburg, 1863
Duration:17:48:40
Vicksburg, 1863
Duration:08:51:25
Kut-al-Amara, 1916
Duration:08:18:12
Baghdad, 1917
Duration:07:03:34
Cambrai, 1917
Duration:13:08:47
Dunkirk, 1940
Duration:12:52:47
Tobruk, 1941
Duration:28:16:37
Crete, 1941
Duration:16:04:13
Alamein, 1942
Duration:21:54:14
Stalingrad, 1942-43
Duration:38:54:19
Kursk, 1943
Duration:08:10:58
Kohima and Imphal, 1944
Duration:16:15:02
D-Day, 1944
Duration:52:05:51
Iwo Jima, 1945
Duration:10:00:11
Berlin, 1945
Duration:16:03:18
Dien Bien Phu, 1954
Duration:22:20:46
Closing Credits
Duration:00:13:53