The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History

The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History is a fascinating collection that educators, students, and historians will all find useful in helping them understand the causes and consequences of the most infamous military failures in history.
The dynamics of military disaster are equally, if not more, important as understanding how to achieve success on the battlefield. This comprehensive book covers the complete gamut of human history as it tells the compelling stories of the worst military debacles of all time. It covers battles, campaigns, and wars, starting with the ancient Persians and Greeks and finishing with the U. S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not limited to land warfare, however, the book also includes a number of the most disastrous naval engagements and campaigns in world history.

The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History opens with a detailed introduction illuminating the role military strategy and politics played in some of the worst battlefield failures throughout history. The entries are augmented with several engaging sidebars related to various military disasters. This eclectic collection includes coverage of many lesser known military disasters such as the Taiping Rebellion, during which 20 times more Chinese died than the number of people killed in the American Civil War.

Introduction

Part I Ancient Military Disasters
1 Megiddo
2 Marathon
3 Salamis
4 Syracuse Expedition
5 Gaugamela
6 Chang-Ping
7 Cannae
8 Zama
9 Pharsalus
10 Teutoburg Forest
11 Adrianople
12 Catalaunian Plains
13 Yarmouk
14 Baekgang

Part II. Medieval Military Disasters
15 Tours
16 Hastings
17 Hattin
18 Kamikaze: The Second Mongol Invasion of Japan
19 Lake Boyang
20 Grü nwald
21 Agincourt
22 Bosworth Field

Part III. Military Disasters from the Early Modern Period
23 The Conquest of the Aztecs
24 Lepanto
25 The Spanish Armada
26 Pyongyang
27 Sekigahara
28 The Sack of Magdeburg
29 Breitenfeld
30 Nö rdlingen
31 Naseby
32 Rocroi
33 Ramillies
34 Poltava
35 Rossbach
36 Quebec
37 Kunersdorf
38 Quiberon Bay
39 The Siege of Pondicherry
40 Yorktown Campaign
41 Rivoli
42 The Nile
43 Second Battle of Zü rich

Part IV. Nineteenth-Century Military Disasters
44 Trafalgar
45 Jena-Auerstedt
46 Tippecanoe
47 Leipzig
48 The Alamo
49 San Jacinto
50 Siege of Nanjing
51 The Capture of New Orleans
52 The Vicksburg Campaign
53 Koeniggratz
54 Sedan
55 Battle of the Little Bighorn
56 Isandlwana
57 The Yalu
58 Manila Bay

Part VI. Recent Military Disasters
59 Tsushima Strait
60 Tannenberg
61 The Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive
62 Verdun
63 Battle of the Somme
64 German U-Boat Offensive in World War I
65 Caporetto
66 Shanghai
67 Nomonhan
68 France 1940
69 The Battle of Britain
70 Crete
71 Pearl Harbor
72 Wake Island
73 Singapore
74 Bataan
75 Midway
76 The Destruction of PQ-17
77 The Dieppe Raid
78 El Alamein
79 Operation Torch
80 Guadalcanal
81 Kursk (Operation Citadel)
82 Ploesti Raid (Operation Tidal Wave)
83 The Second Schweinfurt Raid
84 Normandy Landings
85 The Philippine Sea
86 Imphal and Kohima
87 Operation Bagration
88 The Falaise Pocket
89 Battle of Arnhem
90 Operation Bodenplatte
91 Battle of Osan
92 Chinese Intervention
93 Battle of Dien Bien Phu
94 Ap Bac
95 The Six-Day War (1967 Arab-Israeli War)
96 The Tet Offensive
97 Lam Son 719
98 1973 Arab-Israeli War-Sinai (Yom Kippur War)
99 Iran-Iraq War: The First Gulf War
100 Iraqi Freedom

Index